Load Analysis and Structural Improvement of the Tracked Armored Vehicle

Abstract

To improve firing performance of the vehicle, type 85 tracked armored vehicle was armed with 122 mm rocket launcher. Due to the upgrading, the maximum firing range and weight are 300 % and 119 %, increases, respectively. The weight increment causes structural damage to the vehicle. Therefore, this paper presented load analysis and structural design to prevent the damage using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The objectives are to numerically obtain the stress and deformation behaviors distributed on the vehicle. The static and dynamic loads were both applied in this analysis. The results showed that the improved structure can reduced stress occurred