Dynamics Analysis of a Tracked Military Vehicle

2025-36-0203

12/18/2025

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Tracked Military Vehicles are well known in armed forces, due to their use and importance in conventional combat, playing a crucial role since World War I until current combats. Also, as it happens in different generations, the environment involved in these wars changes and those vehicles are being used not only in open field situations, but inside residential neighborhoods also. However, despite their relevance, analyses and studies aimed at understanding these vehicles are scarce at the undergraduate level, which creates a gap among the recent graduate engineers that want to learn and understand how tracked vehicles perform in different scenarios. This is important because understanding initial concepts helps to bring more ideas and start more detailed studies in the area. Therefore, to bridge this gap, a detailed dynamic analysis of a tracked military vehicle is conducted using MATLAB with a dynamic model to evaluate performance, level transitions, and acceleration. Additionally, simulations are performed under different scenarios: asphalt, sand, and mud, where conditions in a jam situation are tested.
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Dalcin, Pedro Henrique Kleim, Levy Pereira Ribeiro, Elias Dias Rossi Lopes, and Gustavo Simão Rodrigues, "Dynamics Analysis of a Tracked Military Vehicle," SAE Technical Paper 2025-36-0203, 2025-, .
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Dec 18
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2025-36-0203
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English