Laboratory of Transport Engineering and Logistics
The Laboratory of Transport Engineering and Logistics is a subdivision of Faculty of Transport Engineering, founded in 2017. The established laboratory combines separate laboratories previously ran by departments of Faculty of Transport Engineering, such as internal combustion engines, automotive exploitation, exploitation materials, electrical equipment, traffic participant psychophysiology, hydraulic drivers, railway transport, logistics and other laboratories. Better and wider opportunities of scientific researches of the Faculty of Transport Engineering are ensured this way. Also there are better education opportunities for future and existing specialists in transport engineering and logistics.
It is important that future employees in the transport sector would be able to think practically and critically and they would not be afraid to look for new solutions to solve emerging problems. For this reason, the activities of the laboratory are closely linked to progress creation and application in the field of transport engineering, and the main goal of the laboratory is to contribute to the scientific activities and study process of the Faculty of Transport Engineering. The equipment of the Laboratory of Transport Engineering and Logistics is constantly maintained, improved and updated. This ensures the opportunity for all cycles’ students, teachers and researchers to develop engineering thinking, perform various laboratory works and researches.
It is important that future employees in the transport sector would be able to think practically and critically and they would not be afraid to look for new solutions to solve emerging problems. For this reason, the activities of the laboratory are closely linked to progress creation and application in the field of transport engineering, and the main goal of the laboratory is to contribute to the scientific activities and study process of the Faculty of Transport Engineering. The equipment of the Laboratory of Transport Engineering and Logistics is constantly maintained, improved and updated. This ensures the opportunity for all cycles’ students, teachers and researchers to develop engineering thinking, perform various laboratory works and researches.
Laboratory work
The equipment available at the Laboratory of Transport Engineering and Logistics provides the opportunity to perform the following laboratory works and researches:
- Research related to automotive exploitation; power measurement; simulation of driving modes; determination of traction characteristics; determination of fuel consumption rates; determination of engine exhaust emissions and composition;
- Automotive technical condition check; diagnostics of electronic control systems; batteries diagnostics; automotive body dye layer thickness measurements;
- Experimental researches of internal combustion engines; motor testing of fuel and fuel mixtures; motor testing of various additives used for internal combustion engines; computer simulation of internal combustion engines;
- The influence of automobile’s active and passive safety systems on safe traffic and researches of their improvement possibilities; tests to determine the impact of car suspension, tires and others constructional elements on its stability; provision of proposals to state institutions preparing laws and other legislation related to safe traffic; the formation of causes of traffic accidents and process research;
- Determination of drivers' personality and psychophysiological characteristics;
- Determination of the dynamic viscosity of oil products; determination of the flashpoint of oil products; determination of fuel cetane and octane number; determination of water impurities in fuel; determination of oil acidity;
- Diagnostic researches of transport technological equipment; vibration analysis; ultrasonic detection of defects in material, welding seams; material thickness measurement; determination of material hardness;
- Joining of hydraulic and pneumatic actuators’ elements on a laboratory stand, their management, determination of basic parameters;
- Inspection of lifts; inspection of lifts catchers; determination of lifting speeds and accelerations; doors closing forces and speed measurement;
- Researches of transport traffic flow; automated classification of vehicles; determination of vehicles driving speed and direction, distance between vehicles measurement; mathematical modeling of traffic flows;
- Analysis of DC electric drives; determination of mechanical and energetic characteristics in various operating modes; analysis of DC motors speed control;
- Determination of mechanical and energetic characteristics of asynchronous drives under various operating modes (motor, regenerative and dynamic braking); analysis of asynchronous motors speed control;
- 4Q converter - DC motor drive speed performance tests; research of electric drives control methods; analysis of motor idling speed, motor and regenerative braking modes;
- Analysis of mechanical characteristics of asynchronous frequency drive; analysis of asynchronous motor control methods; research of acceleration characteristics of unloaded and loaded motor.
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