Equivalent Static Load-cases for structural FEA of Combat Vehicle Body/hull

Nilesh Patel

Hello Guys, 

Looking support for defining boundary conditions to carry out structural FEA of combat vehicle body/hull. In preliminary design stage, we need to complete Linear static FEA of vehicle body (particularly for 8x8 / 6x6 combat vehicle category) considering equivalent static loads. This equivalent static load cases represent/consider max value of dynamic road loads generated due to terrain profile and vehicle dynamics. e.g Load Case 3-2-1 g that represents equivalent static load as 3g in vetical, 2g in longitudinal and 1g in lateral direction.

Since this is new task for me, looking support for any guidelines/literature  available defining BCs for this kind of analysis.