You can't escape friction. The force that resists motion between two objects that are in contact with one another exhibits itself all over the place: in between your engine's rod bearings and its ...

On a vehicle with a traditional manual transmission, engine output is routed through a clutch mechanism to the geardrive assembly. A flywheel bolts to the end of the crankshaft on the rear of the ...

Many of us have a basic idea of what our car's clutch does, but still find all the teeth and springs confusing when we actually look at one out of the car. Fortunately, Learn Engineering on YouTube ...

Ask nearly any classic Pontiac owner about the effort required to actuate the factory-installed clutch. Back in the day I remember being stuck in traffic in my ...

Today's crop of softer Homo sapiens really make things difficult for driveline engineers. As if getting a clutch to hold up behind an 800hp LS small-block isn't already challenging enough, today's ...

A&A Manufacturing Company, Inc. North Haven, Conn. Continuous and intermittent slip clutches nd myriad uses, and engineers improve new motion control applications with them every day. How do they work ...

Friction dynamics in wet clutch systems represent a critical field of study in automotive and mechanical engineering, where precise control of heat, torque, and wear processes is essential for optimal ...

In automatic transmissions a smooth clutch operation is related to the velocity dependence of the coefficient of friction (COF). Although JASO M348 and other full-scale clutch tests, or other ...

The functional lifetime of a wet clutch can be characterized using wear characteristics such as velocity dependence of the coefficient of friction (COF) and friction curves. Current market trends ...