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Safe Tractor Operations: Loading and Towing

open access: yesEDIS
The Safe Tractor Operations series contains six articles devoted to tractor safety. This publication lists safety recommendations for towing equipment and loading a tractor onto a trailer or truck. Written by Serap Gorucu, Carol J.
Serap Gorucu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tractor PT: A traction prediction software for agricultural tractor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Traction prediction modelling, a key factor in farm tractor design, has been driven by the need to find the answer to this question without having to build physical prototypes.
Catalán Mogorrón, Heliodoro Fco.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

What Matters to Us?: Contemplating a Holistic Indigenous Identity Framework Through Four Framing Questions

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Services, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a conceptual framework for Indigenous college student identity development, addressing the limitations of mainstream student development theories rooted in Western, Eurocentric worldviews. Drawing on Tribal Critical Race Theory and relationality, we propose four guiding questions—Where are we? Who are we?
Symphony Oxendine, Stephanie J. Waterman
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing Urban Public Transport Performance Through Econometric Modeling and Dynamic Benchmarking in Greater Cairo

open access: yesFuture Transportation
This paper introduces a detailed approach to boosting the functioning and finances of public transport in Greater Cairo. The research depends on multicriteria analysis, econometric forecasting, mathematical optimization, and comparison with other ...
Nawaf Mohamed Alshabibi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of the "boundary line analysis method" for the optimisation of the number of tractors used in an agricultural company

open access: yesAgricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2014
The "boundary line analysis method" calculates the minimal total annual operational costs used for the optimisation of number of tractors owned by agricultural companies.
Miroslav MIMRA   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Diffusion of the Tractor in American Agriculture: 1910-60 [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the impact and diffusion of the gasoline tractor in American agriculture. A key feature of the transition from horses to tractors was a long intermediate stage when both modes of power were used on the same farm.
Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode
core  

The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

Effective aggregating of tractors for transportation [PDF]

open access: yesTransport Problems, 2012
The paper discusses the importance of tractors for the technological and transportation activities in agriculture. It also presents a methodological approach and an algorithm based on the criteria for the full utilization of the tractors’ gravity and ...
Petar DIMITROV   +3 more
doaj  

Modelling and Simulation of a Hydrostatic Steering System for Agricultural Tractors

open access: yes, 2018
The steering system of a vehicle impacts on the vehicle performance, safety and on the driver’s comfort. Moreover, in off-road vehicles using hydrostatic steering systems, the energy dissipation also becomes a critical issue.
B. Zardin   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optimal weight and power parameters of crawler tractors to reduce pressure on the soil

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment, 2019
Crawler and wheeled vehicles are used in a variety of soil and climatic conditions. In the Krasnoyarsk region crawler tractors have a number of advantages.
S. Yuferev   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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