Expert Columns: Page 17

Read the latest from our collection of expert columnists and contributors.

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Engineering Ethernet into Commercial Vehicles

TE Connectivity Ltd.

Enabling advanced, data-heavy functionality means getting comfortable with integrating Ethernet into a mixed architecture.

The tremendous size of many off-highway vehicles can create challenges for signal integrity for Ethernet applications, requiring adoption of the 40-m standard.

Observations from ACT Expo 2019

Electrification was the predominantly showcased alternative technology, demonstrating its growing use within various vehicle and equipment industries.

Bosch is providing several advanced technologies for use on the new Nikola hydrogen fuel cell powered Class 8 truck (learn more, 21064821).

Shifting Power Sources: The Emerging Role of Electrification in Heavy-Duty Equipment

Examining benefits and challenges as heavy-duty on- and off-highway equipment incorporate electric-powered systems.

Komatsu’s electric excavator.

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Pull Grader Basics

Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)

Several elements came together to create the pull grader design we know today.

The first modern four-wheel grader, Samuel Pennock’s American Champion of 1877. It was also the first to have an adjustable rear axle. Its design was essentially unchanged until 1925.

Combination Rollers

Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)

By combining two types of rollers into one machine, ownership and operating costs can be reduced without sacrificing performance.

A Hamm DV 6 K combination in its natural environment.

Landfill Compactors

Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)

Equipment purpose-built for compacting garbage made its entrance into the market in the 1960s.

1966 advertisement for the Pactor Trashmaster, the earliest known purpose-built landfill compactor.

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Cyber Threats Are No Match for Cyberhardening

RunSafe Security

Off-highway vehicles, by nature, are susceptible to cyberattacks considering telematics and open architecture communication networks.

Vibratory Drum Compactors

Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)

The first vibratory drum compactors were single drums towed behind crawler or wheel tractors, and progressed from the use of smooth drums to padfoot drums for deeper embankment compaction.

This 1968 Raygo 400 is part of its Rascal line, one of the most successful early series of self-propelled vibratory compactors.

Steering Control

The Military Vehicle Steering System

Pailton Engineering

Advancements in steering system engineering and testing means some military vehicles are better equipped to take on harsh operating environments.

Steering column manufactured by Pailton Engineering.

A Vision of the Connected Jobsite

Teletrac Navman

Once the assets of the jobsite are understood, users can get an enhanced end-to-end 360-degree view of the jobsite.

Mika Majapuro

Ambition to Optimize the Entire Powertrain

Rolls-Royce Solutions America Inc. (formerly MTU America)

Looking ahead at future engine development, the engine system should be tailored to its requirements and expectations.

Photo Lars Kraeft

A New Start to the Industry

The future will see a complete shift away from continuing improvements of existing technologies to development of brand new technologies and concepts.

Andrzej Zubka

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