Study of the Mobility of Vehicles as Related to Trafficability of Traction Media

Abstract

This report is a summary of the work conducted by the U.S, Naval Civil Engineering Research and Evaluation Laboratory in relating the external performance of off-the-road vehicles to measurable characteristics of the terrain. The importance of the shear strength of the soil to its ability both to support vehicle loadings and to allow the creation of tractive effort for the propulsion of the vehicle has motivated consideration of a portable, direct shear apparatus as a trafficability instrument. Presented herein is a possible form of such an apparatus and an approach to performance prediction made possible by its utilization. Over-all success in achieving the ultimate objective of reliably estimating the soft ground performance of vehicles by these methods and techniques will depend upon continued theoretical development of the fundamental relationships between soil and vehicles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 15, 1954
Accession Number
AD0056994

Entities

People

  • S. J. Weiss

Organizations

  • Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Contracts
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Internal Friction
  • Lepidoptera
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Military Vehicles
  • Model Tests
  • Navy
  • Scale Models
  • Snow Cover
  • Soil Dynamics
  • Soil Mechanics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Tracked Vehicles
  • Trafficability
  • Vehicles

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Pavement Materials Engineering.