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Experimental Investigation of the Drag Losses in the Shifting Elements of Automatic Transmissions.
Rel. Carlo Rosso, Lukas Pointner-Gabriel. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Automotive Engineering, 2021
Abstract
Nowadays market trends in the automotive industry followed by OEMs productions show the increasing spread of industrial, commercial and passenger vehicles equipped with non-manual transmissions. Automatic Transmission (AT) and Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) gearboxes are characterized by an increased comfort level and a powershift gear change thanks to wet multi-disk clutch-packs. Despite clutch-pack devices bring several advantages in terms of comfort, shifting time, thermal stability and load capacity, they work in a cooling lubricating fluid that, due to oil shear when in disengaged mode and with a relative differential speed between the plates, generates significant power losses and increase vehicle CO2 emissions and fuel consumption.
Wet multi-disk clutch-packs are used in a multitude of fields, not exclusively in the automotive one
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