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Understand Amphibious Vehicle Design for Fording and Swimming

Course Overview

Amphibious Vehicle Design explores the fundamentals of how military land vehicles are adapted to meet the significant challenges associated with amphibious operations. This self-paced online course covers the operational and technical requirements underpinning shallow and deep fording, snorkel operation, and swimming. It provides essential knowledge for engineers and technical professionals involved in defining requirements, evaluating designs, or supporting amphibious vehicle programs.

Learners develop essential knowledge covering water entry and exit, component sealing and protection, propulsion systems, and vehicle stability during swimming operations. Shallow, deep, and snorkel fording introduce different requirements for sealing, component protection, and flooded- or dry-engine configurations. Propulsion and flotation aids examine the capabilities and limitations of systems used during swimming operations. Buoyancy and transverse and longitudinal stability cover the relationships between center of pressure, center of gravity, metacentric height, and righting moments. Free-surface effects and lateral and longitudinal stability extend this foundation to key design trade-offs affecting swimming operations.

Course content and quizzes develop learners’ understanding of amphibious operating modes and the key functional and physical relationships influencing amphibious vehicle design. Learners will be better equipped to identify important stability, integration, and configuration considerations and recognize where more detailed engineering analysis is required. The course complements the military vehicle design principles covered in the Combat Vehicle Design and Logistic Vehicle Design courses. As part of the course, participants receive a PDF copy of the course presentation slides, ensuring continued learning and practical application of course concepts.

Course Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the principal fording and swimming modes of amphibious military vehicles.
  • Describe the roles of sealing, engine arrangements, propulsion and flotation aids.
  • Explain buoyancy, transverse stability and longitudinal stability using the concepts presented in the course.
  • Interpret the effects of heeling, righting moments, free surface and roll behavior in the course’s stability discussion.

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Mr Mark Eggler

Military Vehicle Technology, Systems Engineering, Leadership

Mark is a senior professional engineer and project manager with over 30 years' experience working on large complex military technology projects. He has worked for the Australian Department of Defence and leading defense industry organizations on major acquisition programs.

Who Should Take This Course?

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Course Curriculum

Introduction | Key concepts | Shallow fording | Deep fording | Snorkel fording | Design issues | Swimming | Component protection and sealing | Flooded engine | Dry engine | Swimming | Propulsion systems | Flotation aids | Amphibious tanks and IFV | Quiz | Buoyancy and stability | Types of stability | Transverse stability | Centre of pressure | Heeling and righting moment | Meta-centre | Longitudinal stability |Design trade-offs | Free surface effects | Design issues | Roll frequency effects | Quiz

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