Military Vehicles, 2007

The 18 papers in this publication address several interesting and perplexing challenges in the areas of fuels and lubricants today. Fuels papers reveal the effects of bio-diesel fuels on engine performance and exhaust emissions as well as the Fischer-Tropsch Iso-Paraffinic Kerosene on petroleum fuel-wetted elastomers used within fuel systems. Lubricants papers investigate and compare the long term stability of bio-based to petroleum-based hydraulic fluids and evaluate the level of corrosion protection provided by several military hydraulic fluids and engine oils. This publication also discusses vehicle modeling and simulation with military vehicle applications.

For a complete listing of technical papers in this Special Publication click on the See List link below.