Abstract
The elevator dynamic simulator has been developed to evaluate the emergent behavior. The model is derived with the multi-body system, especially the rope model is introduced by the separated mass-spring model. Estimation of the elevator emergent behavior is very difficult for a numerical analysis, because it contains the highly non-linear conditions. The proposed simulator can easily solve the buffer contact problem, rope slip and high mode rope vibration. The simulator shows reasonable results compared with the experiment. In this paper, the simulation model is explained in details, and several simulation results are shown related to the buffer strike behavior. And also an ideas for the elevator structural design is proposed with the structural optimization.
