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Vehicle,
I. INTRODUCTION
Military strategic guidelines has always stressed about
the importance of mobility. If vehicle is able to operate
effectively over terrain that enemy cannot negotiate or
move with greater speed, this will be decided advantage
over enemy. This requirement can only be met by vehicles
capable of much higher speed and a high degree of off road
mobility. The improved mobility demand depends upon the
vehicle suspension system. The paper focus is on
performance of combat vehicle over obstacles like
triangular ditch, vertical step and straight walled trench etc.
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TABLE I
MODEL PARAMETERS
Sr.
No.
Parameter
Value
23600 kg
200 kg
Spring Stiffness
156kN/m
Damping constant
44 kNs/m
Track width
TABLE II
ACCELERATION OF VEHICLE BODY AT CG LOCATION
Acceleration m/s2
Velocity
2.4 m
Max
Min
2 km/hr
2.8
-0.7
5 km/hr
6.8
-1.5
6 km/hr
8.6
-1.8
8 km/hr
11.5
-2.55
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TABLE III
ACCELERATION OF VEHICLE BODY AT CG LOCATION
TABLE IV
ACCELERATION OF VEHICLE BODY AT CG LOCATION
Acceleration m/s2
Acceleration m/s2
Velocity
Velocity
Max
Min
Max
Min
2 Km/hr
4.6
-1.5
2 km/hr
3.1
-1.3
3 Km/hr
7.2
-2.5
5 km/hr
5.4
-2.6
5 Km/hr
9.7
-5.7
6 km/hr
7.1
-3.1
8 Km/hr
13.2
-9
8 km/hr
8.5
-3.7
V. CONCLUSION
A multi-axle wheeled military vehicle has been modeled
successfully in Multi-Body Dynamics (MBD) software
LMS Virtual.Lab. The model developed has been
effectively used for predicting the vehicles obstacle
crossing capability. The obstacle crossing capability of
vehicle model has been carried for obstacles namely
i)Triangular ditch, ii) Vertical step, iii) Straight walled
trench. Vehicle dynamic parameter such as vertical
acceleration at CG of the vehicle has been captured using
the model developed.
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