Wheel loader transmissions are commonly based on a torque converter and an automatic gearbox. This solution is mechanically robust and well suited for the typical operation of the machine, but the fuel efficiency is low at some modes of operation. One proposed improvement is to replace the present transmission with a multi-mode power-split CVT (MM-CVT). This paper compares the fuel saving poten...

During this season, due to high running costs of the slewing loader,an exercise wascarriedout to compare the slewing loader and the hi-capacity Bell loaders. The slewing loader in use at the time was the model with high lift boom mounted on a Ford 6600, modified with a Brockhouse torque converter. The comparison revealed that, under the conditions obtaining at Mgayi section, the Bell loader was...

Three Stochastic Dynamic Programming (SDP) implementations are developed for control of a diesel-electric wheel loader transmission. The implementations each use a stochastic description of the load, with the probabilities either independent of the states, dependent on previous power or on distance driven. Both the cycles used for the controller development and for the evaluation are derived fr...

Hydraulic systems are widely used in Engineering because they are highly versatile and can be combined with other domains of physics (mechanics, electronics, etc.). For this reason, it is of vital importance to study and develop them with a view to obtaining mechanicalhydraulic systems that are increasingly efficient. The beginning of this paper briefly analyses the method usually used to perfo...

In this paper, taking power-shifting transmission of ZL50 wheel loader as control object, an autocontrol system based on Intel-51 single-chip microcomputer has been developed. Chaotic neural networks (CNN) control technology in which chaotic optimizing algorithms is applied to improve neural networks’ learning efficiency makes gear-shifting control system possess intelligentized characteristics...

This paper presents the modelling and simulation of a stable angle-based instability threat indicator for articulated off-road vehicles. First, a stable angle is represented by the vertical forces of four wheels and steering angle of an off-road articulated steer vehicle. Then a vehicle prototype model is built based on a specific wheel loader type and a tyre/terrain model. Finally, the prototy...

Sliding clamps are ring-shaped proteins that tether DNA polymerases to their templates during processive DNA replication. The action of ATP-dependent clamp loader complexes is required to open the circular clamps and to load them onto DNA. The crystal structure of the pentameric clamp loader complex from Escherichia coli (the gamma complex), determined in the absence of nucleotides, revealed a ...