1. Introduction to Off-road Vehicles
1.1. Role of Terramechanics
1.2. Basic Concepts in Terramechanics
1.3. Approaches to Off-road Vehicle dynamics
2. Wheel and Terrain Interaction
2.1. Characterization of terrain behavior
2.2. Identification of wheel Response
2.3. Wheel-terrain interaction products
3. Performance of Off-Road Vehicles
3.1. Influential Parameters on
Off-Road Vehicle Performance 3.2. Vehicle dynamics on deformable terrain
3.3. Stability of motioning/Handling
3.4. Ride comfort
4. Energetic Perspective of off-road vehicle Mobility
4.1. Energy and Power Sources for off-road vehicle mobility
4.2. Energy dissipaters for vehicle dynamics
4.2. Energy dissipaters for vehicle vibrations
5. Application of Artificial Intelligence on molding and optimization
5.1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Tools
5.2. Modeling with Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, ANFIS and Fuzzy Expert System 5.3. Optimization with heuristics and meta-heuristics
6. Applied Problems in Dynamical Systems