- Faster Response Times
- Better, Smoother Ride
- Superior Handling
- Rollover Prevention
- ALL IN AN AIP-APPROVED SAFETY UPGRADE!
Why Believe Us?
Full References by Fire Fighters like you are available on request. Please call or email and we will put you in touch with someone with your truck or something like it!.
Our Struts, your truck, one better riding, safer vehicle. Please feel free to click here to download the FAA study on Davis Struts.
The FAA is conducting an on-going research study into rollovers and their circumstances. Please follow the following link to be taken to the FAA website: http://www.airporttech.tc.faa.gov/safety/heavy.asp
DTI can assist you in making the AIP Grant Request, provide information to budget makers, Insurance Agents (safer should equal less liability and/or cheaper rates) or anyone else that would help us make your truck safer. Email or Call Now!
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Background: Over five years ago, DTI
worked together with Air Force and E-One emergency vehicles as a
part of a task force to solve the problem of roll over propensity in
Air Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) trucks. To solve this problem we
adapted our technology to work as a retrofit helper spring element
that augments the existing OEM spring system to provide an upper end
spring force that resists roll and provides superior shock
absorption for enhanced ride dynamics.
To achieve that goal, DTI completed two very successful back to back
ARFF vehicle development programs to design and manufacture a
retrofit suspension strut system for an independent suspension
configuration and a beam axle application.
Both systems provided a cost effective retrofit suspension system
that maximizes vehicle stability regardless of vehicle suspension
configuration. The DTI suspension struts take the place of the
standard shock absorber at each wheel position and are designed to
serve as both a powerful supplemental spring element and high power
shock absorber that efficiently combines functions to resist
undesirable vehicle roll dynamics to significantly reduce the
potential for rollover. In the first program DTI teamed up with Air
Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), E-One and the FAA to install and
test the stability system on an E-One Titan HPR with independent
suspension. The test demonstrated that by installing the DTI strut,
there was a significant reduction in the amount of body roll the
truck experienced as result of steering and ground inputs, which
raised the overall high-speed mobility of the vehicle regardless of
the terrain. Another direct result was that steering response and
handling feedback to the operator were greatly improved which are
invaluable inputs to the driver that allow the driver to make
decisions about the maximum performance envelope of the vehicle
during emergency operation.
Following the success of the E-One project. The P-18 program was
initiated by AFRL to prove the system would be equally effective in
a challenging solid axle configuration. In this second program, DTI
teamed with AFRL, Canadian National Research Center and the test
results for the P-18 were even more dramatic. With the DTI system
installed, the lateral forces that are required to create a loss of
control or rollover were effectively raised from .48 G to .80G. This
means that a 66% more lateral force must be exerted on the DTI
equipped P-18 to reach the threshold of rollover. This level of
improvement assure the lateral G levels that are required to cause
rollover would be more difficult to achieve and that roll over
possibility would be less likely. Since then, DTI has been producing
strut units for E-ONE ‘s HPR 4 x 4, 6 x 6, 8 x 8
ARFF vehicles and
Bronto Aerial Truck. We also install retrofit stability systems
product on Air Force P-19 ARFF truck, Oshkosh T-1500 and T-3000
ARFF
trucks as well. On both independent and solid axle vehicles the
improved vehicle performance and stability capability of our passive
suspension struts provides a much greater margin of safety above the
present truck configurations. This improvement has a significant
effect on reducing the potential of the driver to get into dangerous
conditions resulting in vehicle rollover.
Davis Technologies
International
4501 Ratliff Lane - Addison, TX
75001
Phone: 972.732.7020 - Fax: 972.732.7037
info@davistechnologies.com
sales@davistechnologies.com
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