https://www.elibrary.ru/title_about_new.asp?i Global Energy Глобальная энергия 2782-6724 34 Efficiency of the usage of the ground contact area of a caterpillar drive under conditions of transmitting the normal loads Эффективность использования опорной поверхности гусеничного движителя при передаче нормальных нагрузок Galyshev Yuriy galyshev57@yandex.ru Dobretsov Roman kgm-spb@list.ru 10 09 2013 3 178 272 278

Proposed a mathematical model of the caterpillar drive rolling movement under conditions of significant center of pressure displacement. Showed the effect of underuse of the ground contact area length under conditions of transmitting normal loads, on the power losses and on the track gage depth.

 THEORY OF GROUND VEHICLES. LENGTH OF THE GROUND CONTACT AREA. NORMAL LOADS. DEPTH OF THE TRACK GAGE. CATERPILLAR DRIVE ROLLING MOVEMENT MODEL.