Effect of belt width and grouser wear on the tractive characteristics of rubber-tracked vehicles

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 267-271

  Upadhyaya, Shrinivasa K ^a   Rosa, Uril A ^a   Josiah, Malcolm N ^a   Koller, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Belt width; Gross traction; Grouser wear; Net traction; Rubber track; Tractive efficiency

Indexed keywords

BELTS; RUBBER; TRACTION (FRICTION); WEAR OF MATERIALS;

RUBBER-TRACKED VEHICLES;

TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL);

EID: 0035351799     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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