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Traction

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• Automobiles -- Traction
• Carriages and carts -- Traction
• Locomotives -- Traction
• Motor vehicles -- Traction
• Tires -- Traction
• Trucks -- Traction

• Feasibility study of trailer techniques for tire traction. Volume 1. Summary. Final report. (1973), by A. F. Ramsey, S. R. Sacia, and J. D. Eagleburger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feasibility study of trailer techniques for tire traction. Volume 2. Technical. Final report. (1973), by A. F. Ramsey, S. R. Sacia, and J. D. Eagleburger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uniform tire quality grading - traction validation program. II. Verification of concrete and asphalt pads for UTQG at Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo, Texas. Final report. (1975), by A. H. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Requirements analysis and feasibility studies for an experimental safety motorcycle. Final report. (1975), by J. A. Bartol, G. D. Livers, and R. Miennert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laboratory evaluation of pavement surface texture characteristics in relation to skid resistance. Final report. (1972), by S. H. Dahir and H. J. Lentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pavement friction test tire correlation. Final report. (1975), by R. R. Hegmon, S. Weiner, and L. J. Runt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A comparison of tire traction test methods: mobile tire traction dynamometer vs instrumented passenger car. Technical report. (1977), by A. H. Neill and John A. Hinch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of rate of change of slip on the peak braking coefficient of passenger car tires. Technical report. (1977), by Pat L. Boyd and W. H. Walston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noise and traction characteristics of bias-ply and radial tires for heavy duty trucks. Final report. (1977), by G. R. Thurman, William A. Leasure, and R. D. Ervin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traction generating potential of snow tires vs. regular tread tires on ice, snow, wet, and dry surfaces. Technical report. (1978), by A. H. Neill, A. Kondo, John A. Hinch, and Pat L. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Validation of standard surface reproducibility. Final report. (1977), by J. E. Shearer and R. D. Van Arnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truck tire cornering and braking traction study. Final report. (1979), by Pat L. Boyd, A. H. Neill, and John A. Hinch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanics of pneumatic tires. (Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1981), by Samuel K. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• An evaluation of methods to investigate truck tire wet traction. Final technical report. (1984), by I. Gusakov, R. Rice, S. Publiese, and Robert A. Galganski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of the tire/pavement interaction mechanism phase I and II. Final report. (1985), by Allen C. Eberhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highway design and operations standards affected by vehicle characteristics. Final report. (1984), by Hugh W. McGee, R. S. Rizzo, and B. Tustin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harmonization of braking regulations - report number 6: testing to address surface friction and vehicle braking efficiency comments to the SNPRM. Interim report. (1989), by Mark A. Flick and Richard W. Radlinski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reliability and performance of friction measuring tires and friction equipment correlation. Final report. (1990), by T. H. Morrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Terrible tractoration!! : a poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic institution ; in four cantos ; most respectfully addressed to The Royal College of Physicians (Printed for T. Hurst and J. Ginger, [et al.], 1803), by Thomas Green Fessenden and Royal College of Physicians of London (page images at HathiTrust)

• Results of energy-loss measurements on passenger car tires operating in the free-rolling and braking/traction modes (The Office ;, 1980), by L. Bogdan, Calspan Corporation. Advanced Technology Center, and United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• Driving traction on ice with all-season and mud-and-snow radial tires (US Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, 1983), by George L. Blaisdell, United States Army Corps of Engineers, and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Versuch einer Theorie des Widerstandes zwey-und vierrädriger Fuhrwerke auf Fahrwegen jeder Art (mit Bestimmung der Umstände, unter welchen die einen vor den andern den Vorzug verdienen. ... (Friedrich Brummer, 1798), by Nicolaus Fuss (page images at HathiTrust)

• The factors affecting locomotive tractive effort (1916), by Everett Gillham Young (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Method of measuring motor truck road resistance (1916), by Ludwig F. E. Langer (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Method of measuring motor truck road resistance (1916), by Ludwig F. E. Langer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wet traction of tractionized tires (U.S. National Bureau of Standards :, 1971), by Art H. Neill and United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of two transport aircraft and several ground test vehicle friction measurements obtained for various runway surface types and conditions : a summary of test results from Joint FAA/NASA Runway Friction Program (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division ;, 1990), by Thomas J. Yager, Paul Baldasare, William A. Vogler, Joint FAA/NASA Runway Friction Program, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phenomena of pneumatic tire hydroplaning (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1963), by Walter B. Horne, Robert C. Dreher, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental investigation of the cornering characteristics of 18 x 5.5, type VII, aircraft tires with different tread patterns (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1974), by Robert C. Dreher, John A. Tanner, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fore-and-aft elastic response characteristics of 34 x 9.9, type VII, 14 ply-rating aircraft tires of bias-ply, bias-belted, and radial-belted design (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1974), by John A. Tanner and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some effects of grooved runway configurations on aircraft tire braking traction under flooded runway conditions (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1973), by Thomas A. Byrdsong, Thomas J. Yager, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Driving traction on ice with all-season and mud-and-snow radial tires (US Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, 1983), by George L. Blaisdell, United States Army Corps of Engineers, and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of tire-pavement interaction during maneuvering (Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Offices of Research & Development ;, 1977), by Richard Allan Schapery, John Thomas Tielking, Texas A & M University. Mechanics & Materials Research Center, Texas Transportation Institute, and United States. Federal Highway Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truck tire cornering and braking traction study (Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ;, 1979), by Pat L. Boyd, John A. Hinch, Art H. Neill, ENSCO., and United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis and design of automotive brake systems. (Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command, 1976), by United States. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skidding characteristics of automobile tires on roadway surfaces and their relation to highway safety (Iowa State College, 1934), by Ralph A. Moyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• California State Fuel-Efficient Tire Program : Volume I. Summary of findings and recommendations : Volume II. Consultant report (California Energy Commission, 2003), by California Energy Commission. Transportation Technology Office, Ecos Consulting, and TIAX LLC (page images at HathiTrust)

• Computer simulation of the effect of road roughness on tire-pavement forces for an articulated vehicle performing braking and cornering maneuvers (The Division ;, 1981), by C.S. Kuehne, P.F. Bohn, Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory, and United States. Federal Highway Administration. Structures and Applied Mechanics Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• NACA wartime reports (Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, 1942), by F. B. Gustafson, United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and Langley Aeronautical Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)

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