Approaches to improving the mobility of military tracked vehicles on soft terrain

International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 127-151

  Wong, J Y ^a   Huang, Wei ^b,c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Vehicle Systems Development Corporation   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design and performance evaluation; Design features; Military tracked vehicles; Soft ground mobility

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE SUSPENSIONS; LANDFORMS; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); TRACKED VEHICLES;

DESIGN FEATURES; GROUND CLEARANCE; HIGH MOBILITY; SIMULATION MODEL; SOFT GROUND; TRACK TENSION; VEHICLE DESIGN; WHEEL SUSPENSIONS;

MILITARY VEHICLES;

EID: 58049200303     PISSN: 1744232X     EISSN: 17415152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJHVS.2008.022239     Document Type: Article

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