SAE Truck & Off-Highway Engineering: August 2018
- Content
- 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
- Heavy-duty engine design