Oscillator stability tests on board armored vehicles

This paper is dedicated to the issues of designing of outriggers for avoidance of vehicle tilting during its stability tests. An analysis of existing types of outriggers was done by authors as well as legislative requirements on them. The reliable and well-timed operation of outriggers largely depends on the height of their positioning on a vehicle. In order to determine this important parameter a special methodic of determining the tipping angle of the vehicle with the use of computer-aided design (CAD) was composed by authors. The article also contains some main principles of strength analysis of the structure a very important part of which became the necessity of determination of coefficient of friction between the outrigger sliders and the supporting surface. This coefficient has a direct impact on the value of transverse forces appearing at the ends of outrigger beams.

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Health Assessment of Armored Vehicles Based on K-means

2020 International Conference on Sensing, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Control (SDPC) ◽

10.1109/sdpc49476.2020.9353121 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yingshun Li ◽

Hongli Zheng ◽

Xiaojian Yi ◽

Haiyang Liu

Keyword(s):

Health Assessment ◽

Armored Vehicles

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The logistics of police power: Armored vehicles, colonial boomerangs, and strategies of circulation

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1177/0263775820929698 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (6) ◽

pp. 1138-1156

Author(s):

Derek S Denman

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Material Composition ◽

Critical Reading ◽

Spatial Processes ◽

Police Power ◽

Defense Logistics Agency ◽

Armored Vehicles ◽

Armored Vehicle ◽

Colonial Warfare

Images of police armored vehicles in Ferguson and Baltimore have been influential in a public conversation about the militarization of the police. However, recent critical and abolitionist work on policing rejects the concept of “militarization” for obscuring the longstanding histories and institutional connections between military and police apparatuses. By following the transfers of armored vehicles to police, this article illuminates the logistical pathways that connect colonial warfare and domestic policing, adding an account of the material composition of police power to the historical work of critical and abolitionist thinkers. The article proceeds through a critical reading of records of the Defense Logistics Agency, tracking the transfer of surplus armored vehicles to the police. Designated as “high-visibility property” by the Defense Logistics Agency, these vehicles testify to the materiality of police power. The article then tracks the visibility and materiality of these vehicles as they are deployed in urban and suburban spaces and considers their unique capacity to suppress the democratic energies of crowds. Tracking the armored vehicle provides a way to ask how the rigid lines of fortified urban space are organized into mobile vectors and where ongoing processes of colonization enter these spatial processes.

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