Most of internal combustion engines have one or two heat shields that have been installed on the exhaust manifold to avoid the heat transfer to upper parts of the engine such as the valve cover. In some engines, this part fails due to the fracture and causes engine noise and other failures in the engine. In this paper, the failure of a heat shield due to vibrational loads of the engine has been...

In order to comply with stringent pollutant emissions regulations, a detailed analysis of the engine combustion and emission is required. In this field, computational tools like CFD and engine cycle simulation play a fundamental role. Therefore, the goal of the present work is to simulate a high speed DI diesel engine and study the combustion and major diesel engine emissions with more deta...

Engine speed limiters are safety devices to prevent the engine to exceed a predetermined high speed. The presented speed limiter is designed for large load variations which requires accurate and fast Air-Fuel ratio control. It is based on feedback linearization and on-line estimation of the load torque. Experimentations was done with a Sea-Doo r © watercraft powered by a Rotax r © four-stroke e...

In conventional internal combustion engines, the periodic fuel combustion in cylinders and oscillating masses result in pulsating engine torque. In hybrid powertrains, the electrical motor can be used to control such pulsations. The main originality of this paper is to present an efficient harmonic controller synchronized with the engine speed: the feedback law controls the Fourier parameters o...

hand-arm vibration can cause vascular, neurological and musculoskeletal disorders, collectively named as hand-arm vibration syndrome. the chainsaw is a portable machine that exposes own operators to high levels of hand-arm vibrations. this research focuses on vibration transmissibility from chainsaw handle to wrist and arm of operator. the vibration acceleration signals necessary for evaluation...

Application of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in diesel engines has always been important, especially in the field of automotive engineering. This is due to easy accessibility, better mixing quality and good combustion characteristics of the CNG fuel. In this study the application of CNG fuel along with diesel oil in a heavy duty direct-injection automotive diesel engine is experimentally investi...

The experimental study was conducted to investigate the effects of different opening ranges of waste gate of a turbocharged medium displacement spark ignition engine on improving work parameters such as exhaust emission, torque characteristics and fuel consumption. The object of the experimental tests was an engine with modified intake and exhaust manifolds. The intake and exhaust manifold modi...