Automotive technology and trades

Vehicle Dynamics: Theory and Application offers comprehensive coverage of fundamental and advanced topics in vehicle dynamics.

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This textbook will help you learn all the skills you need to pass all Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Systems courses and qualifications.

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Automotive technicians and students need a firm grasp of science and technology in order to fully appreciate and understand how mechanisms and systems of modern vehicles work.

Advanced Motorsport Engineering is an essential textbook for students on Motorsports Engineering courses and a handy reference those already working in the industry.

This book discusses the importance of transitioning from conventionally fuelled, electric and hydrogen personal vehicles towards low carbon electric and hydrogen public transport.

Road Vehicle Dynamics: Fundamentals and Modeling with MATLAB(R), Second Edition combines coverage of vehicle dynamics concepts with MATLAB v9.

Driving automation and autonomy are already upon us and the problems that were predicted twenty years ago are beginning to appear.

The text comprehensively discusses the latest mathematical modelling techniques and their applications in various areas such as fuzzy modelling, signal processing, neural network, machine learning, image processing, and their numerical analysis.

The text explores the development, use, and effect of additive manufacturing and digital manufacturing technologies for diverse applications.

FATAL EXIT is the first and only book documenting the decades-long debate among the automotive industry, government regualtors, and safety and privacy advocates over what the public terms "e;automobile black boxes"e;.

A practical medium- and heavy-duty truck systemsFeaturing more than 100 in-depth lab exercises, this hands-on guide provides the practice you need to succeed as a medium- and heavy-duty truck service technician.

Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI)/controlled auto-ignition (CAI) has emerged as one of the most promising engine technologies with the potential to combine fuel efficiency and improved emissions performance, offering reduced nitrous oxides and particulate matter alongside efficiency comparable with modern diesel engines.

Whether you have owned one or just wished you did, Corvettes evoke glamour, elegance, speed, a little danger, and a sense of American pride.

A sweeping portrait of the EV transformation and what it means for all of us.

Road transport is on a constant course to maintain and improve driving safety in what is a complex process involving multiple forms of risk.

Advances in Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles: Degradation Mechanism, Health Estimation, and Lifetime Prediction examines the electrochemical nature of lithium-ion batteries, including battery degradation mechanisms and how to manage the battery state of health (SOH) to meet the demand for sustainable development of electric vehicles.

This book presents neural partial differentiation as an estimation algorithm for extracting aerodynamic derivatives from flight data.

The International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks is the leading international gathering of scientists and engineers from academia and industry in the field of ground vehicle dynamics to present and exchange their latest innovations and breakthroughs.

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering.

Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way.

Boeing's 737 is indisputably the most popular and arguably the safest commercial airliner in the world.

There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year.

Active Braking Control Design for Road Vehicles focuses on two main brake system technologies: hydraulically-activated brakes with on-off dynamics and electromechanical brakes, tailored to brake-by-wire control.

This new volume covers the important issues related to environmental emissions from SI and CI engines as well as their formation and various pollution mitigation techniques.

This book offers an intuitive approach to random processes and educates the reader on how to interpret and predict their behavior.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Renewable Energy and Climate Change (REC 2019), which was held at the Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM) from 1 to 2 February 2019.

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A commonly used practice in industry is the machining of sculptured part surfaces on a multiaxis numerical control (NC) machine.

CONVERT TO BIODIESEL FOR A MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY RIDERun Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels has everything you need to make the switch from expensive, environment-damaging carbon fuel to cheap (and, in many cases, free), clean fuel for your vehicle.

Engine Testing is a unique, well-organized and comprehensive collection of the different aspects of engine and vehicle testing equipment and infrastructure for anyone involved in facility design and management, physical testing and the maintenance, upgrading and trouble shooting of testing equipment.

High standards of NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) performance are expected by consumers of all modern cars.

This textbook provides a guide to the fundamental principles of acoustics in a straightforward manner using a solid foundation in mathematics and physics.

Intelligent Control of Connected Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles presents the development of real-time intelligent control systems for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, which involves control-oriented modelling, controller design, and performance evaluation.

The text comprehensively discusses computational models including artificial neural networks, agent-based models, and decision field theory for reliability engineering.

Transportation electrification, particularly using electric vehicles (EV), has been widely suggested to mitigate global warming and energy security issues due to their economic and environmental benefits.

This comprehensive reference text discusses the concepts of the magnetic field assisted finishing processes that range from working principles, material removal mechanisms, process parameters and equipment involved, to the industry-specific applications.

Presents practical methods for detecting, diagnosing and correcting fluid power problems within a system.

Uncertainty is certain to be found in structural engineering, making it crucial to structure design.

The first International Symposium on Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aero- elasticity of Turbomachines was held in Paris in 1976, and was followed by symposia at Lausanne in 1980, Cambridge in 1984, Aachen in 1987, Bei- jing in 1989, and Notre Dame in 1991.

This book details the knowledge of digital instrumentation human-machine interaction (HMI) design, infotainment system HMI design, multi-mode interaction design, and driving automation HMI design in intelligent vehicles from the perspective of human factors engineering.

Road Vehicle Dynamics: Fundamentals and Modeling with MATLAB(R), Second Edition combines coverage of vehicle dynamics concepts with MATLAB v9.

This book takes a new approach to air navigation, extending the classic scope of positioning and guidance to efficient and safe 4D flight trajectory management.

Informed Urban Transport Systems examines how information gathered from new technologies can be used for optimal planning and operation in urban settings.

A blended learning approach to automotive engineering at foundation levelUsed alongside the ATT Training online learning resources, this textbook covers everything that students need to learn in order to pass Introduction to Motor Vehicle Engineering (EL3) automotive courses.