Tire/road interactions play a critical role in safe operation of ground vehicles. This paper presents the modeling, analysis, and experimental studies of stick–slip interactions between the stationary tire and the firm road. A semi-analytical model is first proposed to predict the normal force distribution on the tire contact patch. A beam–spring network modeling approach is then used to captur...

It has been well recognized that online analytical processing (OLAP) can provide important insights into huge archives of data. While the conventional OLAP model is capable of analyzing relational business data, it often cannot fit many kinds of complex data in emerging applications, such as bio-medical data, time series and semi-structured data. In this paper, we propose GOLAP, a general OLAP ...

Data warehousing and OLAP are mainly used for the analysis of transactional data. Nowadays, with the evolution of Internet, and the development of semi-structured data exchange format (such as XML), it is possible to consider entire fragments of data such as documents as analysis sources. As a consequence, an adapted multidimensional analysis framework needs to be provided. In this paper, we in...