An Analytical Procedure for the Support of ROPS Design 760690
An analytical procedure has been developed to fulfill the need for a technical support of the design of well balanced ROPS. The procedure is incorporated in a computer program referred to as SAPROPS by its acronym. SAPROPS performs elastic-plastic,non-linear analyses of space frames by the direct stiffness method.
Examples are given to demonstrate effective applications of the program to the design of ROPS for agricultural and earth-moving vehicles. Good correlations between the computed results and the experimental data are shown. A possible enhancement of the analytical procedure is also discussed.
Citation: Yeh, R., Huang, Y., and Johnson, E., "An Analytical Procedure for the Support of ROPS Design," SAE Technical Paper 760690, 1976, https://doi.org/10.4271/760690. Download Citation
Author(s):
Rudolph E. Yeh, Yuan Huang, Edward L. Johnson
Affiliated:
International Harvester Co.
Pages: 12
Event:
1976 SAE International Off-Highway and Powerplant Congress and Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Rollover protective structures
Frames
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