Power Requirements for Wheels Operating in Fine-Grained Soils

Abstract

A technique based on the U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station mobility prediction system was developed for predicting power requirements as a function of system output (pull coefficient) for a given wheel equipped with pneumatic tire operating on clay and in a range from towed to 20 percent slip. In addition, separate relations of system output and system input (torque coefficient) as functions of slip can be predicted. Comparisons with data from vehicle field tests show fair to good agreement between measured and predicted performance parameters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0759501

Entities

People

  • Klaus-jurgen Melzer

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Coefficients
  • Consistency
  • Energy Consumption
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Field Tests
  • Geometry
  • Measurement
  • Military Vehicles
  • Mobility
  • Pull Tests
  • Rate Of Consumption
  • Resistance
  • Self Propelled
  • Vehicles
  • Waterways

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Pavement Materials Engineering.