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Skew-normal log-volatility model of road surface profile

Mobasserfar, Y ; Sharif University of Technology | 2022

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2022.109236
  3. Publisher: Academic Press , 2022
  4. Abstract:
  5. Road roughness-induced vibrations are the main source of fatigue damage accumulation in vehicles. Hence, road surface profile modeling and simulation are of high importance when it comes to vehicle fatigue damage assessment. This research focuses on uncovering the statistical distributions that describe the characteristics of road loads that affect fatigue damage accumulation. Particle filtering is deployed to estimate the log-volatility of the road surface profile by assuming a random walk behavior for the hidden log-volatility. The skew-normal distribution with three parameters is fitted to the estimated log-volatility. The inferred parameters are used for synthesizing artificial road profiles used in a vehicle simulation to calculate fatigue damage indices (FDI). The new road profile model outperforms all the previous models in predicting the real road FDI. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
  6. Keywords:
  7. Moving average model ; Damage detection ; Fatigue damage ; Normal distribution ; Roads and streets ; Stochastic models ; Stochastic systems ; Vehicles ; Vibrations (mechanical) ; Damage index ; Fatigue damage accumulation ; Particle filter ; Road profile ; Road surface profiles ; Skew normals ; Skew-normal distribution ; Stochastic volatility ; Volatility modeling ; Monte Carlo methods
  8. Source: Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing ; Volume 177 , 2022 ; 08883270 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0888327022003855