🛞 Lunar Rover Wheel: Bekker Sinkage, Compaction and Drawbar Pull (2D)

Side view of one rover wheel rolling on loose lunar soil: it sinks, pushes the soil down, and shears it to move forward. Set the rover mass, the gravity, the wheel size, the soil stiffness, friction and cohesion and the wheel slip, and see the sinkage, the compaction resistance, the shear thrust and the drawbar pull that is left. The wheel load integral, the compaction force, the shear integral and the slip limits are checked numerically, with four in-page numerical checks.

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install