Quantification of Semi-Truck Cab Decontamination

Optimizing Truck Cab Layout for Driver Accommodation

One important source of variability in the performance and success of products designed for use by people is the people themselves. In many cases, the acceptability of the design is affected more by the variability in the human users than by the variability attributable to the hardware from which the product is constructed. Designing for human variability as an inherent part of the product opti...

Design of a Low Power Active Truck Cab Suspension

Mining haul truck cab noise: an evaluation of three acoustical environments

Mining haul trucks comprise the majority of the equip­ ment used in underground limestone mining operations and are known to emit high levels of noise. A previous study conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) indicates that 70-90 % of all miners have a noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) great enough to be classified as a hearing disability b y retirement ag...

Multiobjective robust design optimization of fatigue life for a truck cab

Structural optimization for vehicle fatigue durability signifies an exciting topic of research to improve its long-term safety and performance with minimum cost. Nevertheless, majority of the existing studies has been dealing with deterministic optimization and has not involved uncertainties, which could lead to an unstable or even useless design in practice. In order to simultaneously enhance ...

A Study of Light Truck Cab Elasticity Impact on Ride Comfort

Taking a light truck for study, using finite element method and virtual prototyping technology to establish a vehicle’s rigid model and rigid-flexible coupling model considered cab elasticity. On a random road with cab suspension of rubber and semi-floating we made a simulation analysis on vehicle ride comfort, taking into account acceleration power spectral density and weighted acceleration rm...