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Ingenious solutions
One aspect of the motor industry that I never fail to marvel at is the sheer ingenuity of the individuals involved in the design, engineering and manufacturing of cars, trucks, vans and buses. Take this issue as an example: Bernie
Rosenthal’s team at Reaction Design has developed a software programme to predict
engine knock in a virtual world (page 6), making the engine designer’s life easier, especially those charged with developing the complex algorithms embedded in ignition, injection and timing strategies. Or there’s the lead story on Camcon Automotives
development of an infinitely variable valve control system, enabled by expanding on a technology from outside the automotive industry – the result of a genuine ‘What if?’ moment from Camcons’ boffins that could be a game-changer for engine design as significant as Peugeot’s double overhead cam in 1912 or, nearer in time, Fiat’s development of common rail diesel systems eight decades later. Then there are technologies that are ahead of their time,
hobbled by the lack of materials or the subtle control that micro chips bring, waiting in the wings to be revived - dual clutch transmissions is a classic example. Or, like the story in the last issue on the compressed air-ssisted Peugeot engine or, as Andrew English reports on page 30, engines running on cryogenic air. The Liquid Air Car Company of Boston, USA, had such a powered car 111 years ago. Only time will tell if the moment has now come. But, with increasing demands being made on emissions, then the industry, rightly, is leaving no stone, no matter how improbable, unturned to keep us all mobile.
Ian Adcock, Editor in Chief
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May/June 2013
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