AREAL EVALUATION OF VEHICLE MOBILITY

Evaluation of the mobility performance of wheeled off-road transportation vehicles is still considered to be under debate within the research as well as the design and user communities. Methodolgies and desgin tools have not quite permitted a kind of standardized approach so far, although much progress has been acieved through the past five years. K.J. Melzer has been discussing various possibilities of evaluating the traction of tires for off-road transportation vehicles in a position paper presented at the 2nd European Conference; this paper concentrated on a mission-based analysis of mobility performance characteristics for a case study vehicle. Based on this case study, the authors will describe some evaluation tools relating to a real mobility performance characteristics of vehicle under consideration. Such an approach requires comprehensive terrain data bases to be dealt with while applying computer-aided methods. The evaluation procedure will provide performance data which have to match the user's requirement data which are defined in terms of characteristic speeds, immobilization percentages, that are achieved by a vehicle in an area under investigation.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • From the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Performance of Off-Road Vehicles and Machine (8th), Volume 3. Held at Cambridge, England, on August 5-11, 1984, AD-A150 653, pp985-1004.
• Corporate Authors:

  Battelle-Institut EV, West Germany

  Postschliessfach 900160
  6000 Frankfurt/Main,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • Koeppel, W
  • Strauss, C
• Publication Date: 1984-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 20 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: All terrain vehicles; Case studies; Mobility; Tires; Traction
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Vehicles and Equipment; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00396774
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 28 1986 12:00AM