|
Abstract. Full-scale testing of vehicles is notoriously difficult and expensive. Invariably
only a small range of vehicle configurations and soil conditions
can be explored and it is difficult to ensure consistency
and uniformity of terrain. Scale-model testing may provide a more
versatile and cost-effective method for exploring the behaviour of off-road
vehicles. This paper describes some of the simple rules which
have to be observed when modeling vehicle operations on soil
and presents results from three case studies of scale-model tests
on tracked vehicles and earth anchors carried out in soil
bins at The Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) in
the United Kingdom. The results are shown to correlate well
with theoretical predictions of full-scale performance and with empirical predictions
based on full-scale trials.
Related topics:
tracked vehicles, mobility
View first page of "Hetherington: Scale-model Testing of Soil-vehicle Systems"
Papers by Hetherington
Register for the free
to receive a list of papers for each issue as it is released.
|
