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Vibration effect of two different tires on baggage towing tractors

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The ground support equipment such as the baggage towing tractors are widely used in the airport apron of Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Thailand. The tractor weight was heavy; therefore, the solid tire had been used instead of the pneumatic tire. The pneumatic tire life was short while the solid tires were hard for riding which were the huge problems of tractor tire usage. This research aimed to analyze effects of the rolling tires. The drum testing method had been performed to measure the rolling effect of tires. The vibration of rolling tires was analyzed to evaluate effects on the baggage towing tractor. The advantage of this study will be useful to develop the towing tractor tires in the future work.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, 73170, Thailand

    Juthanee Phromjan & Chakrit Suvanjumrat

  2. Laboratory of Computer Mechanics for Design (LCMD), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, 73170, Thailand

    Juthanee Phromjan & Chakrit Suvanjumrat

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Juthanee Phromjan received a first class honors for the degree of B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand in 2015. She is currently working for toward the M.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering at Mahidol University. Her research interests in development of solid tires using finite element method.

Chakrit Suvanjumrat received the B.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from Price of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand, in 1995. He received the M.Eng. and D.Eng. degrees in mechanical engineering from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. The laboratory of computer mechanics for design (LCMD) is his research laboratory. His research interests are finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, fluid structure interaction, product design and machine design.

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Phromjan, J., Suvanjumrat, C. Vibration effect of two different tires on baggage towing tractors. J Mech Sci Technol 32, 1539–1548 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-018-0307-5

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