How vehicle electrification impacts electrical system design
Of course, keeping people safe in auto accidents isn't as simple as making the whole vehicle crumple. Engineers have to consider many factors in designing safer cars, including vehicle size and weight, frame stiffness and the stresses the car is likely to be subjected to in a crash. For ex...
Based on where springs are located on a car — i.e., between the wheels and the frame — engineers often find it convenient to talk about the sprung mass and the unsprung mass. Springs: Sprung and Unsprung Mass The sprung mass is the mass of the vehicle supported on the springs, while...
Theignition system(Figure 6) produces a high-voltage electrical charge and transmits it to the spark plugs viaignition wires. The charge first flows to adistributor, which you can easily find under the hood of most cars. The distributor has one wire going in the center and four, six or e...
While buying minimal horsepower and low-torque engines and least expensivetransmissionsmay get your job done, will this be desirable to the next owner? Likewise, don’t acquire the lowest acceptable axle weight ratings and gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR). This too will limit the number of ...
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I’d bet money that none of them has ever crashed a bus (or any other vehicle) into an overpass. The “crack” of that clipboard was surely a heart-pounding lesson that they’d never forget. They said as much during our debriefing at the end of the day. A good lesson to learn, ...
and malaria had been definitely ruled out. But in contrast with Texas, in West Africa typhoid and malaria are endemic; so one is unlikely to find any adult who is not carrying antibodies for typhus or who is not carrying some level of malarial parasites. Thus diagnostic uncertainties prevail ...
The state begins its case with paramedic Sharyl Lane, who was driving an ambulance up to the Luling hospital that night when a vehicle suddenly appeared behind her. SHARYL LANE (in court): There's a black car behind us honking and flashing the lights. … Before I even get out, I see...
Pay attention to the amount of salt in foods. “One really robust commonality that we found in this work has been the presence of sodium as a nutrient that, when combined with either fat or starchy carbohydrates, can really be a vehicle for hyper-palatability,” Fazzino said, explaining...