Product Briefs

Automotive

Tire Inflation System

Dana Holding updates technology to support the Spicer central tire inflation system (CTIS), optimizing the performance of lower-flow CTIS applications for smaller government defense and vocational vehicles with a...

News

Green Design & Manufacturing

Lund University Runs Truck Diesel Engines on Gasoline to Boost Efficiency, Reduce Emissions

Using gasoline in modified truck diesel engines can result in more than 50% efficiency if the combustion process is done correctly, according to...

News

Software

Simulating Lightweight Vehicles Operating on Discrete Terrain

Engineers increasingly rely on simulation to augment, and, in some cases, replace, costly and time consuming experimental work. However, current simulation capabilities are...

News

Power

Hyundai CEA Unveils Prototype Excavator

Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas took the opportunity at ConExpo to unveil to North America its R220LC-9 HI-POSS excavator prototype. This concept model, which first debuted at Bauma in 2013, features Hyundai’s next-generation power system that it says provides improved fuel consumption and...

News

Power

Plans May Grow Enough to Transform Fuels

Fuel for combustion engines has not transformed significantly over the past 100 years, but things may change. Biofuel research continues to advance as off-highway engineers develop new techniques...

Technical Innovation

Software

Fuel Savings Modeled for Hybrid-Electric Front Wheel Loader

Fuel efficiency and reduced emissions are two of the top considerations in all organic fuel power generation, including diesel engines. Alternative powertrain concepts including...

News

Electronics & Computers

Software Makes Solid Impact

Digital controls continue to expand their reach, impacting everything from the intricacies of engine operations to the interactions between operator and machine. This takeover has driven an explosion in the...

News

Transportation

Gearshift Actuator Dynamics in a Dual Clutch Transmission

Some emerging transmission technologies have seen a growing trend toward increased drive comfort, fuel efficiency, and low CO2 emission. The most recent additions have been variants...

Articles

Power

Fuel Cells for Auxiliary Power

Idling of heavy-duty truck engines causes significant costs and emissions, yet electrical energy for driver comfort functions such as climate control and personal-use electronics is required. Fuel-cell...

Articles

Automotive

Damping Out Booming Noise

As NVH gains importance in the quality of off-highway machine performance and operator comfort, it is essential to understand every aspect of the machine noise and its annoyance effect on the operator, then reduce...

Technical Innovation

Transportation

Caterpillar Equipment Gets Smarter for Productivity Results

While “connectivity” has become an important part of the nomenclature as of late to both the automotive and on- and off-highway heavy-duty industries, it could be argued that...

Articles

Propulsion

Flex-Fuel Snowmobile Challenge Results in Improved Efficiency and Lower Emissions

The Clean Snowmobile Challenge (CSC), which is part of the Collegiate Design Series of SAE International, was created to challenge students to reduce the...

Original Equipment

RF & Microwave Electronics

BYD Electric Bus Provides 30-H Service on Single Charge

BYD Motors and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recently announced some findings from a two-month pilot test on a 40-ft (12-m) BYD battery-electric bus...

Q&A

Unmanned Systems

Volvo CE’s Road to the Future

As Vice President of Product Platforms for Volvo Construction Equipment, Alan Berger (SAE member, 2013) is responsible for the life-cycle management of the product line, its profitability, commercial performance,...

News

Manned Systems

Variable Trailer Design Drastically Cuts Aerodynamic Drag

Tractor-trailer design is significantly influenced by legal conditions regarding the vehicle dimensions and the provision of a maximum transportation volume.

Technical Innovation

Power

Refining Heavy-Duty Diesel Fuel Systems

How are heavy-duty diesel fuel systems likely to evolve in Europe, now that Euro-VI, the tightest yet emissions regulations applied to heavy trucks and buses in the European Union, have come into...

Original Equipment

Manufacturing & Prototyping

Komatsu America Expands Intelligent Machine Control Dozer Family

Komatsu America Corp.'s D51EXi/PXi-22 is its latest intelligent Machine Control (iMC) dozer for the North American market, and it brings the same iMC technology to another key...

Articles

Transportation

Systems That Talk Together, Are Efficient Together

The need to trim fuel consumption and emissions is forcing design teams to take a broader look at equipment operations, linking various systems so they work together closely. Engines,...

News

Transportation

Injection Strategies for Improving Emissions Characteristics

Traditional diesel engine combustion controlled by fuel injection and fuel-air mixture is typically diffusion combustion. There is a trade-off between NOx emissions and soot...

News

Automotive

BASF Expands Catalyst Production in India to Support Emissions Regs

BASF Catalysts India Private Ltd. is expanding its mobile emissions catalysts production capacity in Chennai, India. Construction of a new 47,000-m² (506,000-ft²)...

News

Transportation

Knorr-Bremse Opens Indian Plants and R&D Center for Rail and CV Systems

Knorr-Bremse has expanded its production capacity in India in both the rail- and commercial-vehicle (CV) sectors with the opening of two new facilities in Palwal and Pune, as well as a new Development Center in Pune to be shared by its two divisions.

News

Transportation

Heavy-Duty Wheeled Vehicles the Focus of New SAE Book

A new SAE International book narrates the history of heavy-duty wheeled vehicles (HDWVs) and presents the theory and calculations required to design them.

News

Manufacturing & Prototyping

Filler Metals

Hobart Brothers Co. plans to showcase at ConExpo 2014 the newest filler metals for the construction, pipe, and heavy-equipment manufacturing markets; multiple hardfacing wires and stick electrodes; and also host live welding...

What's Online

Automotive

Mine-Duty Screen

Deister Machine Co., Inc., plans to launch its new BFO-11224-EX2 mine-duty screen at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2014. The 12- x 24-ft (3.7- x 7.3-m) horizontal, single-deck unit delivers reliability and high-volume capacities in a...

News

Automotive

Ripper/bucket Attachment

The patented V-Raptor Bucket from Leading Edge Attachments, Inc. is a ripper/bucket combination for excavators and backhoes that allows the operator to rip rock, coral, or frozen ground with the maximum breakout force;...

News

Power

Tier 4 Final Engines

Cummins’ latest generation of engines ready to meet EPA Tier 4 Final near-zero emissions regulations extend from 49 to 675 hp (37 to 504 kW). New engines on display at ConExpo 2014 will include the QSF3.8 suited for...

News

Manned Systems

Eaton CTO Assumes SAE VP Post

Thomas R. Stover, Chief Technology Officer for Eaton Corp.’s vehicle operations, recently began his term as SAE International’s 2014-2016 Vice President–Commercial Vehicle. A 22-year member of SAE...