Using PC-Crash to Analyze Motorcycle Slide to Stop Dynamics
2022-01-1002
03/29/2022
- Event
- Content
- PC-Crash is an accident reconstruction program that enables the user to analyze vehicle collision dynamics and trajectory models. This research paper presents the utilization of PC-Crash to analyze Motorcycle slide to stop dynamics. Although, there are numerous research and testing on motorcycle slide to stop dynamics, there are no studies that consist of using a simulation software such as PC-Crash to analyze motorcycle slide to stop dynamics. For this study, existing Motorcycle slide to stop data from SAE 2019-01-0426 will be simulated and analyzed in PC-Crash. The selected dataset consists of three motorcycles; a 2002 Kawasaki ZRX1200R, a 2006 Yamaha YZF-R6, and a 2013 Ninja EX300. Eight of the twelve slide to stop data collected by Fatzinger [1] will be simulated and analyzed in PC-Crash. The motorcycle pre-slide speeds range from 25 – 45 mph. Parameters such as vehicle weight, sliding friction factor, motorcycle sliding and yaw trajectory will be accounted for in each PC-Crash simulation. Additionally, hand calculated pre-slide speeds, sliding friction factors, and slide to stop distances based on physical evidence were used and verified in the PC-Crash simulation.
- Citation
- Nguyen, B., Fatzinger, E., and Landerville, J., "Using PC-Crash to Analyze Motorcycle Slide to Stop Dynamics," SAE Technical Paper 2022-01-1002, 2022, .