Off-road Vehicle Dynamics Analysis, Modelling and Optimization [Paperback]

This book deals with the analysis of off-road vehicle dynamics from kinetics and kinematics perspectives and the performance of vehicle traversing over rough and irregular terrain. The authors consider the wheel performance, soil-tire interactions and their interface, tractive performance of the vehicle, ride comfort, stability over maneuvering, transient and steady state conditions of the vehicle traversing, modeling the aforementioned aspects and optimization from energetic and vehicle mobility perspectives. This book brings novel figures for the transient dynamics and original wheel terrain dynamics at on-the-go condition.

1. Introduction to Off-road Vehicles

1.1. Role of Terramechanics

1.2. Basic Concepts in Terramechanics

1.3. Approaches to Off-road Vehicle dynamics

2. Wheel and Terrain Interaction

2.1. Characterization of terrain behavior

2.2. Identification of wheel Response

2.3. Wheel-terrain interaction products

3. Performance of Off-Road Vehicles

3.1. Influential Parameters on

3.2. Vehicle dynamics on deformable terrain

3.3. Stability of motioning/Handling

3.4. Ride comfort

4. Energetic Perspective of off-road vehicle Mobility

4.1. Energy and Power Sources for off-road vehicle mobility

4.2. Energy dissipaters for vehicle dynamics

4.2. Energy dissipaters for vehicle vibrations

5. Application of Artificial Intelligence on molding and optimization

5.1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Tools