Self-propelled, towing, and towed tests were conducted with several wheeled and tracked military vehicles on a variety of fine-grained and wet coarse-grained snow conditions. The 1955 tests were conducted at various sites on or adjacent to a 220-mile-long, marked trail leading from the edge out onto the ice cap; the 1957 tests were all run at mile 30 on this route. Objectives of the study were to correlate vehicle performance with snow-property measurements, select an instrument that will measure snow trafficability and also meet military specifications, and distinguish snow conditions that permit a vehicle to travel from those that do not. Vehicle performance was correlated with ten methods of measuring snow strength and two physical snow properties; cone index provided the best correlation. (Author)


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    Title :

    Trafficability of Snow, Greenland Studies, 1955 and 1957


    Contributors:
    A. A. Rula (author)

    Publication date :

    1960


    Size :

    197 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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