Journal of Terramechanics
Journal of Terramechanics
ISTVS’s Journal of Terramechanics welcomes submissions within the Journal’s aims and scope.
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The Journal of Terramechanics is primarily devoted to scientific articles concerned with research, design, and equipment utilization in the field of terramechanics.
The Journal of Terramechanics is the leading international journal serving the multidisciplinary global off-road vehicle and soil working machinery industries, and related user community, governmental agencies and universities.
The Journal of Terramechanics provides a forum for those involved in research, development, design, innovation, testing, application and utilization of off-road vehicles and soil working machinery, and their sub-systems and components. The Journal presents a cross-section of technical papers, reviews, comments, and discussions, and serves as a medium for recording recent progress in the field.
2021-08-14 // Journal Metrics Update
CiteScore: 3.7
Impact Factor: 2.446
Acceptance Rate: 35%
Top readership: China, USA, India
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Special Issues
2020 | Modelling, visualization, and verification
Hiroshi Nakashima and Junya Yamakawa
2020 | Terramechanics and Artificial Intelligence for Solving Off-Road Mobility
Ramon Gonzalez and Lutz Richter
2021 | ISTVS 2019 Conference Best Papers
Patrik Prikner
New Topics and Tech Areas
New research directions in terramechanics
Locomotion and terrain interaction (wheels, tracks, new types of locomotion)
Environment impacts on terramechanics, e.g. climate, temperature, humidity, wind, air pollution
Studies of severe terrain conditions, e.g. snow, sand deserts, planet surface, etc.
Interrelation between terramechanics and vehicle mobility
New analytical and experimental methods to describe landscape and terrain conditions
New analytical and experimental methods to study mechanical characteristics of soils
New research directions in manned/unmanned ground vehicle dynamics related to terramechanics
New methods for terrain real-time identification and vehicle mobility estimation
Vehicle system design for vehicle mobility and energy efficiency
Application of AI and controls, sensors and electronic systems to control vehicle mobility and energy efficiency based on vehicle-terrain estimation and advanced terramechanics
Robotic planet rovers and terramechanics
Underground motion and vehicle-soil interaction
Interaction of underwater vehicle locomotion with bottom of the sea
Mobility in multi-phase environments, e.g., water-surface-locomotion interaction
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the ISTVS
—Dr. Jo Y. Wong
Faculty of Engineering and Design
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
The Journal of Terramechanics was founded in 1964, two years after the founding of the ISTVS. The founding Editor of the Journal was A.R. Reece, Translation Editor was Z. Janosi, and Assistant Editor was D.R.P. Hettiaratchi. The four issues of Volume 1, 1964 and Vol. 2, No. 1, 1965 were printed by the Printing Section of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. From Vol. 2, No. 2, 1965 until Vol. 39, No. 4, 2002, the Journal had been published by Pergamon Press. Since Vol. 40, No. 1, 2003, Elsevier has been the publisher of the Journal.
Since its founding, the Journal has been continuously published for 48 years. It regularly published four issues per year from 1964 to 2006, with the exception between 1992 and 1996 with six issues published per year. Since 2007, the publication of six issues per year has been reinstated and the Journal has adopted a new format. It is indexed/abstracted in many leading periodicals, including the Applied Mechanics Reviews, Curr Cont ASCA, CAB inter, etc., and is gaining growing influence in the field.
With the new mission statement adopted by the ISTVS in 2002, the aim of the Journal has evolved accordingly. It is striving to be the leading international journal serving the multidisciplinary global off-road vehicle and soil working machinery industries and related user community, governmental agencies and universities. To promote the advancements of the knowledge in the field for improvements in engineering practice and for innovation, as well as the transfer of advanced knowledge to the user, a sub-title of the Journal — “Application to Terrain-Vehicle Systems” has been introduced since 1996 and modified to “Applications to Terrain-Machine Systems” in 2007.
The scope of the Journal has also evolved with the changing needs of the professional community. In addition to providing a forum for professionals in the fields of off-road vehicles and soil working machinery, its scope has recently been extended to cover the areas of extraterrestrial rovers and field robotics, in order to meet the needs of professionals in an increasing number of nations with growing interest in the exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
While in the past 48 years, with the effort and dedication of all those involved, as well as the support by the readership, the Journal has accomplished a great deal, further progress has to be made in response to the needs of the professional community that it serves. Terramechanics is an applied science and an engineering discipline. Accordingly, the success of the Journal of Terramechanics is judged by the impact of the papers it publishes on providing solutions to issues of concern to industry, on the improvements in engineering practice in the field, and on stimulating innovations in the development and design of terrestrial and extraterrestrial vehicles and soil working machinery. Perhaps, these are the challenges and opportunities that face all those involved in the Journal in the years to come.
Most downloaded articles in 2020
Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. David J. Gorsich
Ground Vehicle Systems Center, Warren, Michigan, U.S.
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Vladimir Vantsevich
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Editor
Dr. Schalk Els
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
Editor
Dr. Ramon Gonzales
Founder and CEO,
robonity, Almería, Spain
Editor
Dr. Genya Ishigami
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Editor
Dr. Mehari Z. Tekeste
Physical Systems Modeling and Simulation of Agricultural and Off-Road Machinery Systems, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.
Editor
Dr. Thomas Way
USDA-ARS National Soil Dynamics Lab, Auburn, Alabama, U.S.
Editor
Jody D. Priddy
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers*, Engineer Research and Development Center, Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory – Mobility Systems Branch, Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.
*The views expressed through the editing process do not necessarily represent the views of DOD or the United States
Editorial Advisory Board
C. Fervers
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
R. Fukagawa
Ritsumeikan University College of Science and Engineering Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kusatsu, Japan
D. J. Gorsich
Ground Vehicle Systems Center, Warren, Michigan, United States of America
P. Jayakumar
Ground Vehicle Systems Center, Warren, Michigan, United States of America
A. Keen
P. Kiss
Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Godollo, Hungary
R. Lal Kushwaha
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
N. McLaughlin
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
H. Nakashima
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
C. Plouffe
John Deere Moline Technology Innovation Center, Moline, Illinois, United States of America
L. Richter
German Aerospace Centre DLR Institute of Space Systems, Bremen, Germany
C. Sandu
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
S. Shoop
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
I. Wasterlund
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Umea Campus, Umeå, Sweden
J.Y. Wong
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada