Accession Number:

ADA090360

Title:

A Terrain-Vehicle Model for Analysis of Steerability of Tracked Vehicles

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS

Personal Author(s):

• Baladi, George Y.
• Rohani, Behzad

Report Date:

1980-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

15.0

Abstract:

This paper discusses the design and development of high-mobility agility tracked combat vehicles. These vehicles are tested for increased battlefield survivability through the avoidance, by high-speed and violent maneuver, of hits by high-velocity projectiles and missiles. The interrelationship between the terrain factors such as soil type, soil shear strength and compressibility, etc. and the vehicles characteristics weight, track length and width, location of center of gravity, velocity, etc. during steering are studied. Idealized mathematical models of the terrain-vehicle interactions are constructed. The accuracy and range of application of such models are determined from actual mobility experiments.

Descriptors:

• *SOIL MECHANICS
• *TRACKED VEHICLES
• KINEMATICS
• SHEAR PROPERTIES
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• VEHICLE TRACKS
• SOILS
• STEERING
• INTERACTIONS

Subject Categories:

• Soil Mechanics
• Combat Vehicles

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE