In this issue:
Pages 1-3 Cavitation erosion
Cavitation erosion of cylinder liners and parent bores is a well known if little understood problem for heavy duty diesel engines. In this article we describe work carried out by engineers at Mahle Metal Leve S.A. and MWM International
Motores of Brazil, who have used PISDYN to successfully investigate and resolve this issue.
Pages 3-4 Code upgrades
The past twelve months has seen a large number of improvements to Ricardo’s mechanical simulation suite with the introduction of VALDYN 4.3, SABR 2.1, PISDYN 5.1 and RINGPAK 5.1, all of which have significantly enhanced functionality to users.
These include improved functionality, new mathematical models and user
interface enhancements.