4th North American Conference Sacramento

4th North American Conference

Sacramento, California, 1992
ISBN 978-1-942112-41-9, €95

Track 1. Forestry Section

  1. “Agricultural and forest tire manufacture characteristics and behaviour on the terrain”, by P.F.J. Abeels (paper, presentation)
  2. “Grouser shape effect on tractive performance of a flexible tracked vehicle carrying up slope terrain”, by Tatsuro Muro (paper, presentation)
  3. “Control of cable-towed vehicle to minimize slip”, by B.P. Salsbery and B.R. Hartsough (paper, presentation)
  4. “Use of wide tires in timber harvesting”, by B.J. Strokes (paper, presentation)
  5. “Ground skidding simulation model for timber harvest”, by Roger Twito (paper, presentation)
  6. “Use of chains on forestry tires”, by C.L. Rawlins and C.E. Johnson (paper, presentation)
  7. “Impacts of forestry equipment and operating methods on soil properties and long-term forest productivity”, by J. Senyk and D. Craigdallie (paper, presentation)

Track 2. Agricultural Section

  1. “History and future development of rubber track”, by T. Muramatsu (paper, presentation)
  2. “Determining soil compaction of tractors wheeled and crawler with rubber tracks”, by R.I. Nikolic (paper, presentation)
  3. “From tire stresses to soil compaction”, by A.C. Bailey. R.L. Raper. C.E. Johnson and E.C. Burt (paper, presentation)
  4. “Effect of prime mover traffic on soil physical properties”, by Suri Thangavadivelu, J. Slocombe, S. Clark and R. Taylor (paper, presentation)
  5. “Tractive performance of a tread design for improved flexibility”, by K.K. Wood and E.C. Burt (paper, presentation)
  6. “Soft surface lateral forces and force modelling for a tractor tire”, by H.L.M. du Plessis and G. Venter (paper, presentation)
  7. “A walking tractor wheel for agricultural machines”, by G. Jubbal and A.A. Franks (paper, presentation)
  8. “Prediction of implement draft using an instrumented analog tillage tool”, by J.L. Glancey and Shrini K. Upadhyaya (paper, presentation)
  9. “Drawbar pull of a tracked vehicle on deep sea soil”, by Gunther Dorfler (paper, presentation)
  10. “Reverse-rotational-rotary tiller for reducing power requirement at deep tillage”, by S. Shibusawa (paper, presentation)
  11. “Soil plowing simulation using the discrete element method”, by David Homer (paper, presentation)
  12. “Handling characteristics of articulated vehicle combinations with twin- and self-steering axle configurations”, by L. Xie, and P.W. Claar II (paper, presentation)
  13. “Effect of dynamic load distribution on the tractive performance of a model tractor”, by Y. Gu and R.L. Kushwaha (paper, presentation)
  14. “Influence of the blade vibration on the clod cracks formation”, by T. Kataoka, S. Shibusawa and Y. Ota (paper, presentation)
  15. “Using the finite element method to predict soil stresses beneath a rigid wheel”, by R.L. Raper, C.E. Johnson, A.C. Bailey, E.C. Burt and W.E. Block (paper, presentation)
  16. “Non-linear dynamics and chaos in agricultural vehicle system”, by K. Sakai, Y. Toyokawa, S. Nambu, S. Mizushirna, M. Takai and S. Hata (paper, presentation)
  17. “Dynamic behavior of lugged wheel under paddy soil condition”, by X.L. Wang, M. Yamazaki and T. Tanaka (paper, presentation)
  18. “Measurement of 3D dynamic soil-tire contact profile and its use in the prediction of traction and soil compaction”, by D. Wulfsohn and S.K. Upadhyaya (paper, presentation)
  19. “Dyna-Bite: An innovative traction system”, by T.G. Granryd and A.V. Mehta (paper, presentation)
  20. “Optimization of the walking vehicle-deformable soil interaction”, by A.P. Bessonov and A.V. Miroshnichenko (paper, presentation)
  21. “Interaction of vehicles of different types with soil”, by A.V. Miroshnichenko (paper, presentation)

Track 3. Military Section - Session 1

  1. “A structured approach to modeling the dynamics of military vehicles systems”, by G.R. Hudas, J.L. Overholt and A.A. Zeid (paper, presentation)
  2. “A dynamic model for tracked vehicle”, by Y. Matsushita, A. Simura and N. Nagatomo (paper, presentation)
  3. “Dynamic simulation of tracked military vehicles using DADS (Dynamic Analysis and Design Systems)”, by J.A. Weller (paper, presentation)
  4. “A dynamic soil-track interaction model for spatial motion of tracked vehicle”, by H. Murakami, CA, K. Watanabe and M. Kitano (paper, presentation)
  5. “Experimental characterization of dynamic soil-track interaction on dry sand”, by K. Watanabe, M. Kitano, T. Katahira and H. Murakami (paper, presentation)
  6. “High resolution computer-based modeling and simulation methodology for large scale wheeled vehicle system analysis”, by R.A. Wehage and MJ. Belczynski (paper, presentation)
  7. “Full scale computer-based modeling, simulation and field validation of on-and off-road performance of 1 1/4 ton high mobility trailers”, by M.D. Letherwood (paper, presentation)
  8. “Use of NATO reference mobility model (NRMM) in the acquisition process”, by Keafur Grimes (paper, presentation)
  9. “Development of confidence limits for the army mobility model”, by G.L. Mason (paper, presentation)
  10. “Stochastic mobility forecasts for military vehicles”, by A.S. Lessem, R.B. Ahlvin and G.L. Mason (paper, presentation)

Track 4. Military Section - Session 2

  1. “Overview of simulated technology in the mechanical test laboratory”, by G.E. Leese (paper, presentation)
  2. “Technical testing of survival tire systems”, by B.A. Bodt and J.E. Schall, Jr. (paper, presentation)
  3. “Comparative performance of active suspension concepts”, by F.B. Hoogterp and M.K. Eiler (paper, presentation)
  4. “Trafficability evaluation of deep snowpack”, by G.J. Irwin, D.M. Xu, A.M.O. Mohamed and R.N. Yong (paper, presentation)
  5. “The effects of inflation pressures on traction performance of radial tired light and heavy army wheeled vehicle”, by R.A. Jones and D.M. Rogillo (paper, presentation)
  6. “US Army wheeled versus tracked vehicle mobility performance test program”, by D.W. Moore (paper, presentation)
  7. “Automated selection and evaluation of avenues of approach”, by G.B. McKinley and W.C. Dickson (paper, presentation)
  8. “Vehicle physical simulation testing at TACOM.”, by H.J. Zywiel (paper, presentation)
  9. “Adaptation of the tracked vehicle performance model NTVPM to NATO requirements”, by J.Y. Wong and G.J. Irwin (paper, presentation)
  10. “Development of criterion for road surface roughness based on power spectral density function”, by D.M. Xu, A.M.O. Mohamed, R.N. Yong and F. Caporuscio (paper, presentation)
  11. “Gap crossing analysis within theaters of operation”, by C.D. Bullock, J.H. Robinson, G.B. McKinley and R.H. Gilmore (paper, presentation)
  12. “Development of design guidelines”, by L.A. Martin (paper, presentation)
  13. “Use of the condensed army mobility model system (CAMMS) in ground vehicle mobility predictions”, by G.W. Turnage (paper, presentation)
  14. “Two dimensional lagrange formulation and simulation of off road track vehicle”, by D. Rubinstein and N. Galili (paper, presentation)
  15. “Capabilities of the WES improved vehicle dynamics module VEHDYN III”, by D.G. Creighton (paper, presentation)
  16. “Integrated measurement systems for mobility of military vehicles”, by M.W. Gray (paper, presentation)
  17. “Crew station/turret motion base simulator (CSITMBS) and vehicle physical testing at TACOM”, by A.A. Reid (paper, presentation)