Prediction of trafficability for tracked vehicle on broken soil: Real size tests

Journal of Terramechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-160

  Benoit, O ^a   Gotteland, Ph ^a   Quibel, A ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CER France   (France)

Author keywords

Prediction; Scarification; Soil; Testing; Trafficability

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVES; GRANULAR MATERIALS; GRAVEL; GROUND VEHICLES; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MILITARY VEHICLES; SCARFING; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAFFICABILITY;

BROKEN SOIL; MECHANICAL MINE CLEARANCE SYSTEMS;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 0348042917     PISSN: 00224898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jterra.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Grima M, Delalance A, Sidoroff F, et al. Superficial soils: an attempt to model breaching, In: Proceedings of the 8th European ISTVS Conference. Umea, Sweden; 2000.
2. Kolmayer P, Cambou B. Constitutive modelling of superficial soils. In: Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on ISTVS. Umea, Sweden; 2000. p. 47-53.
3. Benoit O, Gotteland Ph. DECART: Experimental device for trafficability characterization. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium PARAM 2002. Paris, France, September; 2002.
4. Nouguier C. Numerical simulations of interaction between a tool and granular soils. In: Proceedings of the 8th Regional European ISTVS Conference. Umeå, Sweden; 2000. p. 25-31.
5. Renon N, Montmitonnet P, Laborde P. Numerical modelling of soil ploughing for military breaching. In: Proceedings of the 8th Europena Conference on ISTVS. Umeå, Sweden; 2000. p. 39-46.
6. Benoit O, Nouguier C, Gotteland Ph, Grima M. Experiments and numerical modelling of the behaviour of a plate on granular soil. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the ISTVS. Vicksburg, USA; october 2002. p. 20-4.
7. GTR - Guide Terrassement Routier, Fascicule I & II, SETRA, LCPC, D9233-1 and 2; 1992 [in French].
8. Benoit O. Identification expérimentale du comportement des sols de surface remaniés et de leur aptitude à la traficabilité aux engins chenillés. PhD thesis. Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, December 2002 [in French].
9. Bekker M.G. Off-the-road locomotion. 1960;The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
10. Janosi Z, Hanamoto B. The analytical determination of drawbar pull as a function of slip for tracked vehicles in deformable soils. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Mechanics of Soil-Vehicle Systems. Torino, Italy; 1961.
11. Wong J.Y. Terramechanics and off-road vehicles. 1989;Elsevier, Amsterdam. 251 p.