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"A concise reference that provides an overview of the design of high speed offroad vehicles

High Speed OffRoad Vehicles is an excellent, indepth review of vehicle performance in offroad conditions with a focus on key elements of the running gear systems of vehicles. In particular, elements such as suspension systems, wheels, tyres, and tracks are addressed indepth. It is a wellwritten text that provides a pragmatic discussion of offroad vehicles from both a historical and analytical perspective. Some of the unique topics addressed in this book include link and flexible tracks, ride performance of tracked vehicles, and active and semiactive suspension systems for both armoured and unarmoured vehicles.

The book provides spreadsheetbased analytic approaches to model these topic areas giving insight into steering, handling, and overall performance of both tracked and wheeled systems. The author further extends these analyses to soft soil scenarios and thoroughly addresses rollover situations. The text also provides some insight into more advanced articulated systems.

High Speed OffRoad Vehicles: Suspensions, Tracks, Wheels and Dynamics provides valuable coverage of:

Tracked and wheeled vehicles

Suspension component design and characteristics, vehicle ride performance, link track component design and characteristics, flexible track, and testing of active suspension test vehicles

General vehicle configurations for combat and logistic vehicles, suspension performance modelling and measurement, steering performance, and the effects of limited slip differentials on the soft soil traction and steering behavior of vehicles

Written from a very practical perspective, and based on the author's extensive experience, High Speed OffRoad Vehicles provides an excellent introduction to offroad vehicles and will be a helpful reference text for those practicing design and analysis of such systems."

Author: Bruce Maclaurin