scholarly journals Medium Truck Duty Cycle Data from Real-World Driving Environments: Project Interim Report

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Franzese ◽  
Mary Beth Lascurain ◽  
Gary J Capps
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1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (02) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Phil Kittredge ◽  
Thomas Urbas ◽  
Wayne Shintaku

This article focuses on the fact that engineers at Meritor Automotive decided to learn how truck components really held up on the highways. So they outfitted an 18-wheeler with the company’s products for a 24,000-mile trial, in real time and in the real world. According to Meritor, the comprehensive data generated by the test has spurred improvements in brake components, clutches, drivelines, axles, and transmissions. The company claims that the data opens opportunities for improvements in virtually every type of heavy-duty truck component that Meritor builds. The engineers in Meritor’s experimental mechanics unit enlisted support from all the groups in the heavy vehicle division. The use of a channel to record clutch pedal displacement helped engineers improve their model for determining the number of clutch applications in a line-haul duty cycle. Meritor expects that this information will lead to improved durability of several clutch components.


Diabetes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 847-P
Author(s):  
VIJAY VISWANATHAN ◽  
RIZWANA PARVEEN ◽  
PREMALATHA MURUGAN ◽  
SATYAVANI KUMPATLA

Author(s):  
Pascal Amar ◽  
Parthav Desai ◽  
Aravind Kailas ◽  
Jean-Baptiste Gallo

Hybrid electric and electric trucks are potential technology solutions for reducing emissions at ports. However, developing an advanced, low-emission technology driveline entails thoroughly understanding typical truck operations in the real-world environment. This paper presents the work performed to develop a novel, more representative drayage duty cycle that characterizes drayage truck operations in the ports of San Pedro Bay in California. Unlike a conventional vehicle, an optimized hybrid driveline requires detailed understanding not only of torque requirements and vehicle speeds but also of the potential recovery of dynamic brake energy, charging opportunities, stopping and idling times, and many other operational requirements. Keeping this in mind, the duty cycle presented in this paper incorporated real-world, near-dock activities of Class 8 drayage trucks such as daily hours of operation, mileage, altitude profiles of routes, and idling and key-off patterns. The empirical duty cycle model was subsequently integrated with a complete vehicle simulation to explore the best solutions to minimize energy consumption for drayage applications in and around the ports. The analysis presented indicates that trucks spent most of the generated power in overcoming aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance of tires for a complete drayage shift and that electrical auxiliary loads dominated for near-dock operations because of idling and low-speed profiles. Therefore, achieving zero-emission near-dock operations entails focusing on auxiliary loads and rolling resistance. By using simulations, it was estimated that a hybrid truck with electrical power limited to about 100 kW could deliver a greenhouse gas emission reduction of about 30%.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Lascurain ◽  
Oscar Franzese ◽  
Gary J Capps ◽  
Adam Siekmann ◽  
Neil Thomas ◽  
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