Behavior of vehicle using elastic wheel system is investigated using model; advantages in performance are shown for weak soil and rough textured surface model; in weak soil, elastic wheel behaves as effectively as rigid wheel 3 times its size, and maintains near-constant footprint-pressure over 3.1 increase in load; desirable performance in rough textured terrain is related to very low unsprung weight; this has effect of lessening gross chassis motions, maintaining wheel contact with surface, and to lower applied dynamic loads to wheel and chassis.
Predicted behavior of lunar vehicles with metalastic wheels
SAE -- Paper
SAE Meeting ; 1963 Lunar
1963
10 pages
Conference paper
English
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