Predicting the Performance of Tractor Rollbars
Harris, James Tractor overturns are the single leading cause of
agricultural fatalities in the United States.
Effective engineering controls to prevent these
deaths are available in the form of rollover
protective structures (ROPS) and seatbelts. Half of
all tractors in the USA are without ROPS. Cost-
effective ROPS (CROPS) have been developed to lower
the cost of retro-fitting a tractor with ROPS.
Experimental data demonstrates that the CROPS
proto...