U.S. Army Materiel Command. Engineering Design Handbook: Automotive Series Automotive Suspensions

AMC Pamphlet. - NO. 706-356 — Headquarters, U.S. Army Materiel Command, 1967. 316 p.List of illustrations.
List of tables.
Fundamental Discussions.General Discdon.
Purpose and Function.
Basic Discussions.
Basic Design Parameters.
Physical Limits.
Human Factors.
Military Characteristics.
Designing for Maintenance.
Designing for Production.
Land Locomotion.
Basic Philosophy of Land Locomotion Mechanics.
Definition of the Problem.
Vehicle Morphology.
Dedinition of Mechanical Mobility.
Equations of Land Locomotion Mechanics.
Requireunbnts for Means of Identifying Terrah Propertie.
Physical Soil Value System.
Terrain-Vehicle Relationships in Deformable and Nondeformable.
Soil Trafficability.
Geometric Terrain Vale System.
Application of Terrain-Vehicle Relationships to Vehicle Design and Evaluation.
Soft Soil Performance of Wheeled Vehicles.
Soft Soil Performance of Tracked Vehicles.
Hard Soil Performance of Vehicles.
Unusual Suspension Concepts.
Unusual Track Types.
Unusual Wheel Types.
Skis. Sleighs. and Toboggans.
Walking and Leaping Suspension Concepts.
Laboratory and field test techniques. Equipment and instrumentation.
Methods of Soil Analysis.
Soil Classification.
Determination of Geometric Terrain Values.
Scale-Model Testing and Dimensional Analysis.
Fundameatal Suspension System Concepts.
Suspension System Classifications and Characteristic.
Major Influences on Mobility and Ride Characteristic.
Significant Properties of the Mass System.
Inertial Properties of the Basic Adass System.
Characteristics of the Elastic Support System.
Effect of Operatio'ml Requirements on Location of Vehicle Center of Gravity.
Application of Analog Computer Techniques to Suspension Design.
Suspensions for Wheeled Vehicles.
General Discussion.
Nonindependent Suspensions.
ndependent Suspension Systems.
Wheels and Tires.
Suspensions for Tracked Vehicles.
General Discussion.
General Design Considerations.
Determination of Basic Suspension.
Suspension System Noise and Vibration.
Bump Stops.
Driving Sprocket Assemblies.Appendix Design Data.
Appendix. Suspension and Track Data.