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John Thanks for the interest. To give you a better idea of what I'm looking for, the situation is as follows: I am supplying avery large rail company with some simple heavy duty cover plates to bridge over some pits, the clients structural consultants are asking questions to which they...

John Many thanks, that makes a lot more sense than my own rambling nonsense.

Many thanks for the info guys. I've been thinking about your comments and our estimated stopping time is around 0.2 seconds and a reasonable friction coefficient would be around 0.2 - 0.3 for a steel plate and rubber tired wheel. Acceleration would be V/t as there is no final velocity...

I'm looking to calculate the horizontal force produced on a plate covering a pit from a fork lift truck coming to a studden stop whilst traveling across the plate. The information known is: Mass of truck: 9800kg Velocity : 0.75 m/sec Any ideas?