Dual Clutch Basics with Mark McVea
William Mark McVea is president and principal engineer of KBE+, Inc. He holds a PhD in Design Engineering from Purdue University's Automotive Sciences Department.
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Learning Objectives:
• Understand the basics operational principles of dual clutch transmissions
• Appreciate the benefits of dual clutch technology as it applies to power to ground improvements
• Realize that dual clutch technology implements almost all common components and implementation strategies that have been derived over the past century of manual transmission development
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References:
• “How Dual-clutch Transmissions Work“, William Harris, http://auto.howstuffworks.com/dual-clutch-transmission1.htm, 2007.
• “Smooth in the Clutch: New transmissions combine a manual's simplicity with an automatic's smoothness”, Michael Kluger and Bapiraju Surampudi, Ph.D., of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
• “Electronic Transmission Controls”, SAE Publication #PT-79, Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, PA. 2000.
• “Automotive Transmissions: Fundamentals, Selection, Design and Application”, G.Lechner and H. Naunheimer, Springer Verlag, 1999.
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