- An
axle or
axletree is a
central shaft for a
rotating wheel or gear. On
wheeled vehicles, the
axle may be
fixed to the wheels,
rotating with them, or...
- The
wheel and
axle is a
simple machine consisting of a
wheel attached to a
smaller axle so that
these two
parts rotate together in
which a
force is transferred...
-
axle,
rigid axle or
solid axle is a
dependent suspension design in
which a set of
wheels is
connected laterally by a
single beam or shaft. Beam
axles...
- An
axle counter is a
system used in
railway signalling to
detect the
clear or
occupied status of a
section of
track between two points. The
system generally...
-
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. (AAM),
headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, is an
American manufacturer of
automobile driveline and
drivetrain components...
- A
portal axle (or
portal gear lift) is an off-road
vehicle suspension and
drive technology where the
axle tube or the half-shaft is
offset from – usually...
- A
swing axle is a
simple type of
independent (rear wheel)
suspension designed and
patented by
Edmund Rumpler in 1903. This was a
revolutionary invention...
- A stub
axle or stud
axle is
either one of two
front axles in a rear-wheel
drive vehicle, or one of the two rear
axles in a front-wheel
drive vehicle. In...
- The
axle load of a
wheeled vehicle is the
total weight bearing on the
roadway for all
wheels connected to a
given axle.
Axle load is an
important design...
- The UIC
classification of
locomotive axle arrangements,
sometimes known as the
German classification or
German system,
describes the
wheel arrangement of...
