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Concepts for Vehicles for Off-Road Use in Remote Areas
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Specialists met at the U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) to consider quantitatively various elements of the entire vehicle mobility problem and to suggest an approach for achieving a substantial degree of solution. One specific purpose of the meeting was to design a number of vehicles capable of operating in remote areas of the world where extremely soft soil conditions predominate.
Methods of design based on research studies at the WES and at the Land Locomotion Laboratory (LLL), U. S. Army Tank-Automotive Center, were employed to specify tractive component characteristics that would yield the desired soft soil performance. This paper describes the application of the design methods and presents the two wheeled-vehicle concepts and the one tracked-vehicle concept that were evolved to staisfy the basic assumptions.
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Rula, A., Freitag, D., and Knight, S., "Concepts for Vehicles for Off-Road Use in Remote Areas," SAE Technical Paper 670171, 1967, https://doi.org/10.4271/670171.Also In
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- U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, CE “ Vicksburg Mobility Exercise A, Vehicle Analysis for Remote-Area Operation.” Vicksburg, Miss., Miscellaneous 4 702 February 1965
- U. S. Dept. of the Army, “Soils Trafficability.” Washington, D. C Technical Bulletin ENG 37 July 1959
- U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, CE “ A Dimensional Analysis of the Performance of Pneumatic Tires on Soft Soils,” by Freitag. D. R. Vicksburg Miss. 3 688 August 1965
- Harrison W. L. et al “A Soil Value System for Land Locomotion Mechanics.” U. S. Dept. of the Army OTAC, Land Locomotion Research Branch, Centerline, Mich. December 1958