Some recent developments in vehicle-terrain interaction studies

Abstract This report presents a review of recent developments in the study of vehicle3-terrain interaction, based primarily on papers included in Session 2A of the 10th International Conference of ISTVS. Analytical studies of wheel-soil interaction using visco-elastic soil models and elasto-plastic and rigid-plastic finite element methods are reviewed. Results of experimental investigations of stress distributions on the wheel-soil interface as well as in the soil under various loading conditions are summarized. Various methods for predicting off-road vehicle performance are examined.