General Electric Company

Ge Global Sourcing LLC

Milind Bharat Garule

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Bret Dwayne Worden

Jingjun Zhang

Matthew John Malone

Robert Thomas Scott

Jennifer Lynn Coyne

Nikhil Subhashchandra Tambe

Anubhav Kumar

Vallish Nagabhushana Madhugiri

M Tamilvel

Center pivot

A system is provided for use with, a wheeled vehicle. The system includes a media reservoir capable of holding a tractive material that includes particulates; a nozzle in fluid communication with the media reservoir; and a media valve in fluid communication with the media reservoir and the nozzle. The media valve is controllable between a first state in which the tractive material flows through the media valve and to the nozzle, and a second state in which the tractive material is prevented from flowing to the nozzle. In the first state, the nozzle receives the tractive material from the media reservoir and directs the tractive material to a contact surface such that the tractive material impacts the contact surface that is spaced from a wheel/surface interface. The system can modify the adhesion or the traction capability of the contact surface with regard to a subsequently contacting wheel.

Tractive effort system and method

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Bengaluru, India

Milind Bharat Garule