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Showing 1 to 20 of 504 for “"Truck"”.
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Study of truck allocation and truck dispatching problems in open pit mines
… reductions in the costs. Assignment of truck to shovels has been traditionally performed by fixed truck allocation and by truck dispatching. Several operations research and simulation techniques, which can be used to solve problems concerning surface mining operations, are discussed. The …
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Monetizing truck freight and the cost of delay for major truck routes in Georgia
… for long-haul single unit and combination trucks on Interstate-75 (I-75) in Georgia. Truck profiles on Georgia interstates are used to calculate the value of freight by truck type and commodity moved. Determining the types of trucks and commodities moved within the state of Georgia allows …
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Heavy duty mack truck styling
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1949
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Truck Modeling Along Grade Sections
This research effort first characterizes the trucks traveling along US highways by analyzing data from Interstate 81. It is hypothesized that I-81 is typical of US highways and thus can provide some insight into typical truck characteristics. These truck characteristics are important for the …
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Heuristics method for truck disassembly process
Product recovery is an interesting topic in nowadays especially in remanufacturing industries. Remanufacturers focus on product recovery because of some valuable parts can be used in remanufacturing processes. Disassembly is an important process that extract related valuable parts or subassemblies …
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HEAVY TRUCK COLLISION WITH BRIDGE PIERS
… piers have been carried out with single-unit trucks, which are typically classified as medium-duty vehicles weighing about 89 kN (20,000 lb). Yet, collision events that involve severe bridge damage are generally caused by heavy-duty trucks, generally tractor-semitrailers weighing 360 kN …
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Water by truck in Mexico City
Supply of water to urban households by tanker truck in developing and advanced developing countries is often associated with early stages of urbanization or with the private markets on which water vendors serve households not connected to the piped network. Despite Mexico City's high household …
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Modeling Truck Motion along Grade Sections
… reductions in vehicle speeds, while heavy-duty trucks are affected significantly by grades because of their inferior operating capability. Consequently, due to the potential significant speed differential between automobiles and heavy-duty trucks, these trucks can have a significant impact on …
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Truck Queuing At Seaports Using Terminal Webcam
<p>Truck queuing at marine terminal gates has long been recognized as a source of emissions problem due to the large number of trucks idling. For this reason, there is a great deal of interest among the different stakeholders to lessen the severity of this problem. In order to assist these …
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Investigation of Severe Abrasive Truck Tyre Wear
… resistance. Tyre wear is more serious for trucks as the tyres of multi-axle suspensions are subjected to severe abrasive wear caused by large slip angles resulted from the turning geometry. In Chapter 1, studies about tyre wear are reviewed. Most of the studies focused on car tyre wear. No …
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Design of a stair-climbing hand truck
… to move heavy objects. Devices such as hand trucks are used to relieve the stress of lifting while on flat ground; however, these devices usually fail when it becomes necessary to negotiate a street curb or a short flight of stairs. The objective of this thesis was to design and test a …
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Correlation of truck accidents with highway geometry
… transportation for the year 1989 showed that truck travel has increased from 400 billion vehicle miles of travel to 600 billion vehicle miles from 1980 to 1989, a staggering 50% increase. If this trend continues, then truck travel will reach 800 billion vehicle miles by the end of the year …
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Long driving hours and health of truck drivers
In recent time, the health of truck drivers has become a concern for regulatory agencies and safety professionals all over the world. Fatal and non-fatal injury rates for truck drivers are among the highest of all occupations. Truck driving is an important and tedious job. Driving for long hours, …
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Determination of power consumption in truck center-bearings
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Optimizing log truck payload through improved weight control
Trucking of forest products is a very important segment of the harvesting process and it is monitored relatively closely by external sources. Load weight is the focal point of the attention received by log hauling. The optimization of load weights is therefore very important to a logging …
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A Sociological Analysis of the Cartage Truck Driver's Occupation
This is an occupational study of the cartage truck driver in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Webster defines cartage as "the act of carrying by cart or truck, usually within a city." Bowling Green contains a flurry of diversified trucking activities. For this reason, the study has been narrowed to those …
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Distribution Planning for Rail and Truck Freight Transportation Systems
Rail and truck freight transportation systems provide vital logistics services today. Rail systems are generally used to transport heavy and bulky commodities over long distances, while trucks tend to provide fast and flexible service for small and high-value products. In this dissertation, we …
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Development of truck tire-terrain finite element analysis models.
Heavy vehicles require tires which can withstand extreme loads while maintaining control, delivering performance and minimizing fuel consumption, particularly on soft soils. Recent advances in finite element analysis and computational efficiency have opened doors to highperformance, highly complex …
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