Terramechanics and off-road vehicle engineering : terrain behaviour, off-road vehicle performance and design /

This book will be of great interest to any professional engineer or automotive engineering student working on off-road vehicles. Reflecting the increade in off-road vehicle production and development - recreational, agricultural, construction, military - this book equips readers with all the necessa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wong, J. Y. (Jo Yung)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2010.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Off-road vehicles > Dynamics.
Off-road vehicles > Design and construction.
V�ehicules hors route > Dynamique.
Off-road vehicles > Design and construction
Off-road vehicles > Dynamics
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Conversion factors
  • Nomenclature
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Modelling of terrain behaviour
  • 3. Measurement of terrain properties
  • 4. Characterization of the response of terrains to normal and repetitive loadings
  • 5. Characterization of the shearing behaviour of terrains
  • 6. Performance of off-road vehicles
  • 7. Methods for evaluating tracked vehicle performance
  • 8. Computer-aided method NTVPM for evaluating the performance of vehicles with flexible tracks
  • 9. Applications of the computer-aided method NTVPM to parametric analysis of vehicles with flexible tracks
  • 10. Computer-aided method RTVPM for evaluating the performance of vehicles with long-pitch link tracks
  • 11. Methods for evaluating wheeled vehicle performance
  • 12. Computer-aided method NWVPM for evaluating the performance of tyres and wheeled vehicles.

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