Model Analysis of Vehicle Trafficability with Application to Surface Effect Vehicles on Sea Ice Fields

Efforts were made to derive the design criteria of surface effect vehicles operated on arctic sea ice. Statistical theories were developed to describe trafficability of the vehicles and topography of the sea ice. By the use of actual sea ice surface profiles obtained by an aerial laser profiler, the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Smith, Martin, Nakano, Yoshisuke
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1972
Subjects:
Surface Effect Vehicles & Amphibious Vehicles
*GROUND EFFECT MACHINES
*SEA ICE
ARCTIC REGIONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
PROBABILITY
SURFACE ROUGHNESS
TRAFFICABILITY
Arctic
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0737601
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0737601
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Summary:Efforts were made to derive the design criteria of surface effect vehicles operated on arctic sea ice. Statistical theories were developed to describe trafficability of the vehicles and topography of the sea ice. By the use of actual sea ice surface profiles obtained by an aerial laser profiler, the usefulness of the present statistical method was demonstrated.

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