Trafficability of Snow, Greenland Studies, 1955 and 1957

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rula, A. A.
Other Authors: ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1960
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*GREENLAND
*SNOW
STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES
TEST METHODS
TRAFFICABILITY
VEHICLES
TRACKED VEHICLES
ARCTIC REGIONS
PERFORMANCE(ENGINEERING)
MILITARY REQUIREMENTS
FLEXURAL STRENGTH
Arctic
Greenland
Ice
Ice cap
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0756111
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0756111
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Summary: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.

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