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Terramechanics and off-road vehicle engineering : terrain behaviour, off-road vehicle performance and design /

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This book will be of great interest to any professional engineer or automotive engineering student working on off-road vehicles. Reflecting the increase in off-road vehicle production and development - recreational, agricultural, construction, military - this book equips readers with all of the nece...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wong, J. Y. (Jo Yung)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2010.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Off-road vehicles > Dynamics.
Off-road vehicles > Design and construction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prefaces
  • Conversion Factors
  • Nomenclature
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Modelling of Terrain Behaviour
  • 3. Measurement of Terrain Properties
  • 4. Characterization of the Response of Terrains to Normal and Repetitive Loadings
  • 5. Characterization of the Shearing Behaviour of Terrains
  • 6. Performance of Off-Road Vehicles
  • 7. Methods for Evaluating Tracked Vehicle Performance
  • 8. Computer-Aided Method NTVPM for Evaluating the Performance of Vehicles with Flexible Tracks
  • 9. Applications of the Computer-Aided Method NTVPM to Parametric Analysis of Vehicles with Flexible Tracks
  • 10. Computer-Aided Method RTVPM for Evaluating the Performance of Vehicles with Long-pitch Link Tracks
  • 11. Methods for Evaluating Wheeled Vehicle Performance
  • 12. Computer-Aided Method NWVPM for Evaluating the Performance of Tyres and Wheeled Vehicles
  • References
  • Index.