Abstract
Hull design of a tracked vehicle plays a critical role in the vehicle mobility, crew protection and combat performance. This work is intended to design a hull of 50 Ton tracked vehicle using conventional layout of suspension and running gear components. Driver compartment of hull is designed based upon driver height of 1.69m. Critical hull parameters such as angle of departure, location of 1st road wheel w.r.t idler wheel, location of last road wheel w.r.t sprocket and distribution of middle road wheels are calculated. Finally, designed hull is modeled in Pro/Engineer software and Recurdyn software is used to ascertain vehicle performance in various prototype tests. In the wake of scarcity of papers on this subject, this paper not only outlines the process of hull design for conventional tracked vehicles but also for unconventional ones such as autonomous tracked vehicles.
Highlights
The mobile platform of the tracked vehicle, which can carry the turret with or without gun, is called as the hull of a tracked vehicle
Designed mobility platform is investigated by using multibody dynamic simulation in Recurdyn program
As per the design process outlined in previous section, hull is modeled in Pro/Engineer software [5, 6] which is best suited for parametric modeling
Summary
The mobile platform of the tracked vehicle, which can carry the turret with or without gun, is called as the hull of a tracked vehicle. This platform or hull ensures high mobility and protection in combat condition. The hull of tracked vehicle has very high relation to the mobility and reasonable relation to the protection. The purpose of this study is to design a mobility platform of a tracked vehicle and to investigate its performance prior to field testing. In the course of design of high speed tracked vehicle, number of field tests are required to analyse the performance of designed vehicle. Designed mobility platform is investigated by using multibody dynamic simulation in Recurdyn program
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