SAE Truck & Off-Highway Engineering: August 2018

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  • Heavy-duty engine design
    Increasing regulations and market demands call for cleaner, more durable and fuel-efficient engines. Developers rely on CAE simulation, enhanced test methods and 3D printing to keep up.
  • Switching to comfort mode
    Switches, knobs and touch panels evolve to reduce operator fatigue.
  • Big on prognostics
    Smart data-analyzing procedures that support predictive maintenance will help to significantly increase the uptime of heavy-duty vehicles. The "Evolution of Big Data" symposium at SAE COMVEC 2018 addresses such critical topics.
  • Starship road trip
    Optimized aerodynamics and production-ready technologies propel Shell's Class 8 concept to a 248% freight-ton-efficiency improvement.
  • Editorial
    Intelligence drives efficiency, safety and uptime
  • ADAS features expand role, V2V looms
  • Link readies semi-active cab suspension for intro on select 2020 models
  • Denso bringing driver monitoring to commercial-vehicle market
  • AxleTech develops electric independent suspension concept for vehicles up to 58,000-lb GCWR
  • Mentor design tool simplifies J1939 development
  • Komatsu targets productivity, operator comfort with new WA480-8 wheel loader
  • Volvo Trucks, FedEx demonstrate 3-truck platoon on North Carolina highway
  • Deutz advances 'E' strategy-prototypes on the horizon
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