Basic Study on the Turning Resistance of Track,

Abstract

In recent years, the construction equipments have been even used on the soft ground. The vehicles of crawler type, such as bulldozer, are superior in the trafficability of off the road. On the contrary, the turning resistance may be several times larger than that of straight travelling. Therefore the turning performance of tracked vehicles gives a serious problem. Formerly, the turning resistance was calculated by using the adhesion coefficient or coefficient of slip resistance between soil and under side of the track. But the turning resistance of the track should consist of the slip resistance of its bottom and the bulldozing resistance due to the passive earth pressure produced by side face of the track.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADP004307

Entities

People

  • H. Kondo
  • N. Sugiyama

Organizations

  • Tokai University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adhesion
  • Bulldozers
  • Coefficients
  • Construction
  • Construction Equipment
  • Resistance
  • Tracked Vehicles
  • Trafficability
  • Vehicles

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