Non-pneumatic tire has been widely used due to their advantages of no run-flat, need air maintenance, low rolling resistance, and improvement passengers comfort its better shock absorption. It variety application in the military vehicle, earthmovers, lunar rover, stair climbing vehicles etc. Recently UPTIS (Unique Puncture-Proof Tire System) non pneumatic introduced for passenger vehicles. In t...

Due to less pollution, silence and high efficiency electric vehicles are fascinating to the citizens widely. There are number of physical and electrical aspects are to be considered during vehicle modeling. When electric vehicle runs on the concrete surface rolling resistance resist the vehicle tire to move fast. On the other hand when the vertical angle of vehicle drive is increased or decreas...

More information about the best ways to help veterans with spinal cord injury return to work is needed. Supported employment is a type of vocational rehabilitation that helps persons with disabilities get paying jobs in the community. This type of vocational rehabilitation has not been widely used and has never been tested among persons with spinal cord injury. This article describes a research...

The so-called intelligent tires are one of the most promising research fields for automotive engineers. These tires are equipped with sensors which provide information about vehicle dynamics. Up to now, the commercial intelligent tires only provide information about inflation pressure and their contribution to stability control systems is currently very limited. Nowadays one of the major proble...

BACKGROUND: Manual wheelchair users are at a high risk of repetitive strain injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, and rotator cuff tears due to propelling their for mobility. Rolling resistance (RR) is one the key forces that leads increased propulsion injuries. OBJECTIVE: To better understand factors contributing RR, we iteratively designed, developed, validated drum-based testing machine test met...

Trucking fleets and owners of commercial vehicles utilize both new and retread tires on their vehicles in the United States. Retread tires are used primarily for the cost advantage they provide over a similar new tire. Despite the advantages that retreaded tires may bring, public perception is that retread tires are less safe than new tires as evidenced by the amount of tire debris frequently f...