Browse Topic: Springs
December is a good time to reflect on the past year - to celebrate successes and consider opportunities for improvement - but it is also an opportune time to look to the future. As I think about the year ahead and appraise the tradeshow landscape that'll provide significant content for this magazine, mobilityengineeringtech.com, our e-newsletters and other multimedia products, none is bigger than Bauma in Munich, Germany, particularly in terms of the global construction and mining vehicle industries. The triennial event will cover an area that's equivalent to 86 soccer fields, according to Stefan Rummel, CEO of Messe München GmbH. Speaking to the press during an October virtual preview of Bauma 2025, which takes place from April 7-13, Rummel said that the number of exhibitors - expected to be about 3,600 - will be closer to the 2019 event versus the post-COVID-19 edition that was pushed back from its usual spring timeslot to the fall of 2022.
With the advent of electric and hybrid drivetrain in the commercial vehicle industry, electrically driven reciprocating compressors have gained widespread prominence. This compressor provides compressed air for key vehicle systems such as brakes, suspension systems and other auxiliary applications. To be a market leader, such an E-compressor needs to meet a myriad of design requirements. This includes meeting the performance by supplying air at required pressure and flow rate, durability requirements and having a compact design while maintaining cost competitiveness. The reed valve in such a compressor is a vital component, whose design is critical to meet the aforementioned requirements. The reed valves design has several key parameters such as the stiffness, natural frequency, equivalent mass, and lift distance which must be optimized. This reed valve also needs to open and close rapidly in response to the compressor operating speed. Since it is the order of milliseconds, the valve
This specification covers a carbon steel in the form of wire supplied as coils, spools, or cut lengths (see 8.2).
This specification covers tubular-shaped pins, fabricated from carbon steel, having a full-length longitudinal slot to permit flexure when inserted into a hole.
This procurement specification covers tubular-shaped, coiled spring pins made of a corrosion resistant nickel base alloy of the type identified under the Unified Numbering System as UNS N07718.
Innovators at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have designed a circumferential scissor spring mechanism, that when incorporated into a hand controller, improves the restorative force to a control stick’s neutral position. The design also provides for operation on a more linear portion of the spring’s force deflection curve, yielding better feedback to the user. Physical hand controllers, such as translational and rotational controllers, use a non-circumferential scissor spring arrangement to return the control stick to a neutral position, but the linear response of a typical scissor spring arrangement can reduce a user’s sense of control by allowing slack between deflections.
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have designed a circumferential scissor spring mechanism, NASA engineers have developed a new approach to mitigating unwanted structural vibrations. NASA’s method is fundamentally different from conventional passive and active vibration damping methods widely used today. Tension Element Vibration Damping uses disruptive modal coupling between two structures, each with their own vibrational behavior, to proactively provide vibration damping for one or both of the structures.
First, a particular type of microbe evolved in an acidic hot spring. Fast-forward millions of years, when a geomicrobiologist finds this type of microbe in Yellowstone National Park while conducting NASA-funded research on organisms that thrive under extreme conditions.
At John Deere's inaugural Tech Summit this past spring in Austin, Texas - the location of one of the company's micro-technology hubs and a recently purchased farm on which to conduct R&D activities - sustainability and innovation were two of the overarching topics expounded by various executives. John Deere is providing the executive leadership for this year's SAE COMVEC conference, scheduled for September 19-21 in Schaumburg, Illinois. Not coincidentally, the theme for the 2023 iteration is “Sustainability: The New Frontier for Innovation.”
Vehicle suspension systems that adopt Hotchkiss layout are commonly based on leaf springs. For better comfort for passengers, some features such as rubber pads are used on the springs to reduce noise from metallic contact between leaves, but those pads can compromise the durability of the spring if not well designed or located in the spring assembly, as we will demonstrate on this paper. To do so, it will be presented comparisons using CAE methodology and physical parts test results from vehicle and bench testing which were loaded in different conditions to demonstrate how the rubber pad position can influence the durability of the spring, especially near the eyelet region for some specific load conditions. The case studies presented here are focused on the impact of the rubber pads on durability life of springs, but not defined as root cause of failures.
Improvements in component/system design is a daily challenge these days, always looking for high performance, reduced mass and low costs. The source for the best fit between these factors, coupled with adequate durability performance, is crucial to the success of a given product and this is what motivates engineering teams around the world. The demand for efficient projects with short deadlines for validation and certification is huge and simulation tools focused on accelerated durability and virtual validation are increasingly being used. When developing a new spring for commercial vehicles, lessons learned from the actual loads applied to the suspension are the “key” to a successful project. The loads/stresses from the ground (vertical loads, lateral loads, longitudinal and braking loads) are quite high and, consequently, relevant to the proper definition of the design of the suspension components. The objective of this work is to describe the main development activities faced during
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