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The intake and exhaust valve spring of a 12.7L heavy duty diesel engine was instrumented with torque/shear rosette type strain gages to measure torsional stresses applied on the springs under different engine operating conditions. The engine was tested with no load, partial load and full load conditions and the effect of engine brake switch loading operation on the springs is investigated. Additional measurement of the valve lift motion and the peak fire pressure values from exactly the same cylinder were conducted to better understand the exact timing of the forces applied on the spring. This study gave an insight to the design engineer to determine the dynamic safety margin of the spring under permissible torsional stress values and optimize the material type of the spring accordingly. Another achievement is to measure any possible unpredictable torsional stress values occurred during engine operation when the engine brake is turned on/off and correlate the CAE model.

Internal combustion engines are attached on the vehicle body using engine mounts composed of two cast iron brackets and a rubber isolator connecting them. Engine mount road load identification during vehicle durability tests on proving ground is a critical task for engine mount development. Using standard multi-axial load-cell is not possible unless major design revisions on the vehicle body or engine block are done. Using wheel force transducers and vehicle dynamic simulation tools need extensive model tuning work to get accurate load information. Hence, a custom multi-axial load-cell design is preferred for the engine mount load identification of a BCar I4 engine. The developed load-cell engine mount bracket can be installed without doing any design changes on the vehicle. Design, durability analysis, instrumentation, calibration and vehicle installation of custom designed six degree of freedom multi-axial load cell have been performed.

In this paper, a simultaneous design and development work for a diesel engine valvetrain system is presented. The rocker arm is one of the most important components of the valvetrain system which is transmitting the energy between the valves and the camshaft. Valvetrain system becomes even more complicated, when the extreme high speed of the system and nonlinear character of combustion is combined with the unpredictable behavior of the hydraulic lost motion mechanism during engine brake. As the complexity increases, it gets harder to predict valvetrain stress values especially while engine brake is in action. By taking all of these effects into account, that is reducing reliability of virtual analysis, requirement to conduct a strain measurement on valvetrain became inevitable.

The exhaust manifold bridges the gap between the engine structure and the hot-end after-treatment system, the burned in-cylinder gases are disposed through the manifold. The automotive exhaust manifolds are designed and developed for providing a smooth flow with low/least back pressure and must be able to withstand extreme heating under very high temperatures and cooling under low temperatures. The paper presents a theoretical study aiming to investigate the feasibility of three different CAE approaches and techniques used for the simulation of exhaust manifold fluid flow and the accompanying thermal distribution. The main difficulty emanates from the pulsating nature of fluid flow inside the engine exhaust manifold. To verify the outcome of each solution experimental measurements of the manifold temperatures have been performed.