[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] DUBLIN, Va. — Volvo Trucks North America is introducing a steering system on its Class 8 trucks that the company said reduces steering ...
The optimal size for a clutch or brake is determined by three things: Required torque, thermal horsepower per engagement, and average required thermal horsepower. Here, we'll discuss the first, ...
Volvo Trucks is introducing the next generation of its Turbo Compound technology, providing three percent improvement in fuel efficiency over the current 13-liter Turbo Compound engine, the D13TC.
Blindly assuming the dynamic peak torques listed on servomotor data sheets for a design almost always results in over-sized, inappropriately expensive gearboxes. A motor’s acceleration peak torque is ...