1.6L OHV “KENT” ENGINE Open-wheel racing enthusiasts associate this overhead valve design with the long-lived international Formula Ford series, the starting point for many professional drivers. Most of the combustion chamber is in a dished piston, where the mating cylinder head face is nearly flat. Production for European models (Cortina, Capri and Fiesta) is now phased out. Ford Racing sold n...

This paper presents the conceptual and functional design of a novel hybrid leg-wheel-track ground mobile robot for surveillance inspection, named WheTLHLoc (Wheel-Track-Leg Hybrid Locomotion). The aim work is development general-purpose platform capable combining tracked locomotion on irregular yielding terrains, wheeled with high energy efficiency flat compact grounds, stair climbing/descent a...

Rapid movement is challenging for elongate, soft-bodied animals with short or no legs. Leaping is known for only a few animals with this "worm-like" morphology. Wheel locomotion, in which the animal's entire body rolls forward along a central axis, has been reported for only a handful of animals worldwide. Here we present the first documented case of wind-powered wheel locomotion, in larvae of ...

Ever since the onset of robotics, humans have been finding increasingly clever ways to traverse harsher terrain. There have traditionally been two defined robotic locomotion methods: wheels and legs. This paper describes the design and construction process of a third, new type of All-Terrain Rover (ATR) that uses a hybrid design involving both wheels and legs. The ATR consists of four wheels, w...

This paper presents the responses of the railway vehicle and track components in terms of contact forces and displacements. The considered vehicle model is a five-DOF pitch-plane lumped parameter quarter car model supported on two-dimensional track systems comprising three layers. The car body is linked with the vehicle bogie through secondary suspension springs and damper elements, which is fu...