THIS paper demonstrates the accuracy that can be expected from the method of computing truck road performance developed by Stamm and Lamb.
The author shows here that:
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The method is sound.
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The use of the basic factors now available for the resistances to motion can be expected to result in an average difference between the computed and the actual performance of 5-10% of the computed performance.
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The actual performance is always greater than the computed for operation on the level and is generally less than the computed for grades of 3% and steeper.
