Brief description of the six-component oblique-rolling-wheel machine recently constructed and tested at the University of Western Australia

摘要

The machine being described is a "six-component" machine in that it will measure all three components both of the oblique reaction-force and of the oblique reaction-couple which act from the ground on a rolling wheel. A single wheel, stationary in the machine, may ben set to any chosen combination of drift and camber angles, it may be driven or braked with any chosen hub-torque, it may be caused to carry whatever vertical load is chosen, and it will roll on a continuous, deformable, sandy "road", which is caused to travel rearwards relative to the wheel. Some remarks are made about the advantages and disadvantages of this machine as a laboratory device, and the general purposes for which it was designed and built are briefly mentioned.