Mechanical and Hydraulical Transmissions
Type | Compulsory |
Semester | winter |
Contact hours | 78 (3 + 3) |
Number of credits | 6 |
Type of termination | Assessment + Exam |
Form | Lectures + exercises |
Lecturers | Doc. Dr. Ing. Gabriela Achtenová |
Anotation |
TARGET
Educate the basis of design and calculation of frictional driveaway clutches and manually shifted transmissions and their elements
CONTENT
* Introduction
Longitudinal vehicle dynamics. Vehicle resistances, force equilibrium. Speed characteristics of vehicles. Optimal gear ratio definition.
* Friction elements
Friction elements
Clutches (driveaway clutches) – calculation, design
* Manually actuated transmissions
Mechanical transmissions – function, design and trends, determination of ratio
Gear shift systems (Design, calculation, innovations)
Calculation of geometry and stress of gears
Calculation for life of shafts and bearings (specific points for vehicles)
* Automatic transmissions + planetary trains
* Automatic transmissions – function, design and trends
Calculation of elementary gear sets: graphical method, Willis formulae for ratio determination. Energetic study. Calculation of efficiency.
Calculation of nested planetary gear trains: graphical method, Willis formulae and matrix method for ratio determination. Energetic study. Calculation of efficiency.
Conditions of assembly of planetary gear sets
* CVT – function, design and trends
* Hydraulic transmissions
Hydrodynamic torque converter – function, calculation. Laboratory measumerement of characteristic of torque converter.
Hydromechanic transmissions
Mechanisms with split of power flow. Mechanisms combining different transmission types, or different energy sources. Principle and calculation.
Hydrostatic transmissions
* Differentials and mechanisms with more degree of freedom
* 4 wheel drives
Study materials
- Lecturing material and hand-outs
- Lechner, Naunheimer: Automotive Transmissions, Springer Verlag (basis textbook)
- Achtenová G.: Planetary Gear Sests in Automotive Transmissions. Study book. CTU in Prague. 2011






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