Triangular Mesh Generation of Elevation Versus Distance Course Profiles for use with Road Property Files

摘要

This report documents the process to convert right and left elevation versus distance course profiles into triangular meshes for use in Road Property Files (.rdf) used in RecurDyn multibody dynamics software. Firstly, MATLAB was used to combine the left and right elevation vs. distance course profile curves into one Importing Blend File. This file was imported into Pro/Engineer and used to create road geometry. The geometry was imported into HyperMesh and meshed, creating nodes and elements. The meshed geometry was exported as an ASCII mesh database file. MATLAB was used to parse the file and extract node and element data. Finally, the data was printed in the Road Property File (.rdf) format to be used in the RecurDyn multibody dynamics program.