Engineering Objective: The paper deals with an innovative idea of placing the stop lamps not only in the rear of the vehicle as usual but in the front of it too.
The paper analyses the design and operational peculiarities of the leaning-and-shunting door opening mechanism of electric public transport. The corresponding design of the mechanism is proposed. It is suggested to be driven by electric drive. The simplified diagram of the mechanism is constructed. Structural and kinematic analysis of the mechanism is performed, and the analytical dependencies for describing the motion of its links during the door opening/closing are derived. The main kinematic parameters of the studied mechanism are investigated on the basis of the derived analytical dependencies in MathCAD software, as well as by means of simulating the motion of the solid-state model of the mechanism designed in SolidWorks software. The conclusions about the agreement of the results of theoretical investigations performed on the basis of numerical solving the obtained motion equations and of the virtual experiment (motion simulation in SolidWorks software) are drawn. The analysis of energy efficiency of the investigated leaning-and-shunting door opening mechanism of electric public transport is carried out. Prescribing the resistance force acting on the door leaf and calculating the corresponding door motion speed during its closing, the dependency of the nominal power supply of the mechanism drive as a function of corresponding generalized coordinates was deduced. Analyzing the obtained results, it was established that the necessary nominal power of the leaning-and-shunting mechanism drive is almost twice smaller than the necessary nominal power of the widely used turning-and-shunting door mechanism of electric public transport.
The paper presents 3D modeling of a trapezoidal element (V-element) of a metal pushing V-belt. This type of belt is used on the Continuously Variable Transmissions (CVT) with friction pulleys that equip low and medium capacity motor vehicles. Also, the structural analysis of the V-belt element with regards to the material strength is presented. Modeling and simulation have been accomplished by an advanced CAD – CAM – CAE software which permits three-dimensional virtual design of the V-element or the entire belt.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.