Track and Suspension

GSE is a leading consultant on military track and suspension design, material selection, and testing. GSE has extensive engineering & test experience with the M1 Abrams, the M2 Bradley and the M113 vehicles, as well as the new developments utilizing rubber bandtracks in place of steel track.

GSE's Track and Suspension Services Include:
Road Wheels
Bushings
Band Track

Glen Simula, President of GS Engineering, Inc, has made a name for himself and for GSE for the successful design and consulting on military tracked vehicle systems. Glen Simula has been program manager on over 25 track and bushing programs for TACOM, the Marine Corps, UDLP (now BAE), GDLS, Boeing and 5 foreign track companies. He has been involved in instrumented and endurance field tests for the M1, M2, M113, M60, M109 and the EFV tracked vehicles. He designed, built and instrumented the T130 and T158 laboratory bushings machines under TACOM contracts. These machines are used to perform all of the bushing qualification tests and the majority of bushing development tests in the USA. In October 2001, he was asked to be the mobility expert on the FCS Graybeard Panel by the TARDEC director. Glen has over 25 publications and reports in the area of military track components.

GSE has considerable engineering experience with track shoes, bushings, centerguides, sprockets, and roadwheels. Rubber is typically the weak link to the system life, and GSE is developing solutions to extend the life. GSE understands the field conditions, the O&S costs, and the various systems for maintaining track tension and road wheel suspension.

For the track & suspension market, GSE performs design, analysis, prototyping, and field testing. GSE can travel to your site, or to a government test site to instrument the vehicle and perform testing, data reduction, data analysis, and provide recommendations for system improvement.

Contact GSE today to discuss your track & suspension needs.