ABSTRACT
Track-laying vehicles, as they manifest in modern machines such as bulldozers, army tanks, tracked mobile-cranes or snowmobiles comprise a major class of land-locomotion device. These vehicles interact with the ground though a track belt structure that can be thought of as existing in two quite distinctive forms – a rigid track form and a flexible track form. Because the interaction between a track belt and a terrain is fundamentally different in the rigid and the flexible belt types, the overall structure of a machine’s track belt system will dictate the traffic performance of the machine on construction sites or on other types of on-road or off-road application.
