Model Analysis of Vehicle Trafficability with Application to Surface Effect Vehicles on Sea Ice Fields

Abstract

Efforts were made to derive the design criteria of surface effect vehicles operated on arctic sea ice. Statistical theories were developed to describe trafficability of the vehicles and topography of the sea ice. By the use of actual sea ice surface profiles obtained by an aerial laser profiler, the usefulness of the present statistical method was demonstrated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0737601

Entities

People

  • Martin Smith
  • Yoshisuke Nakano

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Cushion Vehicles
  • Data Science
  • Design Criteria
  • Engineering
  • Fatalities
  • Ground Effect
  • Ground Effect Machines
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Models
  • Probability
  • Random Walk
  • Sea Ice
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Surface Effect Vehicles
  • Travel Time
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Theoretical Analysis.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy