Special issue: Performance and dynamics of diversified land vehicle systems: Part one

International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems 15(2/3/4) 2008

• Approaches to improving the mobility of military tracked vehicles on soft terrain
• Disturbance rejection control of a light armoured vehicle using stability augmentation based active suspension system
• Performance and emission enhancements of a variable geometry turbocharger on a heavy-duty diesel engine
• Optimisation of AWD off-road vehicle performance using visco-lock devices
• Steering strategies for multi-axle vehicles
• Simplified truck chassis modelling and crashworthiness analysis
• Driver alertness monitoring techniques: a literature review
• Dynamic analyses of heavy vehicle with pitch-interconnected suspensions
• Engine-in-the-loop study of the stochastic dynamic programming optimal control design for a hybrid electric HMMWV
• A low-order dynamic model of a tracked robot inclusive of non-linear slip
• Hybrid component specification optimisation for a medium-duty hybrid electric truck
• Optimal tyre inflation pressures for urban buses
• Dynamic modelling and virtual prototype simulation of dump truck-haul road interactions
• Vehicle configuration design with a packing genetic algorithm
• The effect of dynamic arm support on grip forces and steering errors during simulated driving