Reduced testing and modelling of the bearing capacity of rooted soil for wheeled forestry machines》.pdf

Available online at Journal ScienceDirect of Terramechanics Journal of Terramechanics 60 (2015) 23–31 /locate/jterra Reduced testing and modelling of the bearing capacity of rooted soil for wheeled forestry machines Abdurasul Pirnazarov ⇑, Ulf Sellgren KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Machine Design, Brinellvagen 83, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden ¨ Received 13 January 2015; received in revised form 13 May 2015; accepted 28 May 2015 Available online 12 June 2015 Abstract The next generation of forestry machines must be developed to be gentler to soil and to the root mat than present machines, especially in thinning operations. The bearing capacity of the soil is a key property for determining the terrain trafficability and machine mobility. This asks for better and more general terramechanics models that can be used to predict the interaction between different machine con- cepts and real and complex forest soil. This paper presents results from terramechan