Automotive technology and trades

Die Autoren behandeln die Grundlagen der Dynamik von Kraftfahrzeugen und deren mathematische Modellierung.

Children's Active Transportation is a rigorous and comprehensive examination of the current research and interventions on active transportation for children and youth.

Noise-Controlling Casings offers a range of feasible noise-controlling strategies for different kinds of devices generating excessive noise.

Progressive reductions in vehicle emission requirements have forced the automotive industry to invest in research and development of alternative control strategies.

A concise reference that provides an overview of the design of high speed off-road vehicles High Speed Off-Road Vehicles is an excellent, in-depth review of vehicle performance in off-road conditions with a focus on key elements of the running gear systems of vehicles.

Plates and panels are primary components in many structures including space vehicles, aircraft, automobiles, buildings, bridge decks, ships and submarines.

The book focuses on symplectic pseudospectral methods for nonlinear optimal control problems and their applications.

Experimental Methods in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics focuses on how to analyze and solve the classic heat transfer and fluid mechanics measurement problems in one book.

To a large extent, our lives on this earth depend on systems that operate auto- matically.

Introduction to Mechanism Design: with Computer Applications provides an updated approach to undergraduate Mechanism Design and Kinematics courses/modules for engineering students.

Rail is potentially a very efficient form of transport, but must be convenient, reliable and cost-effective to compete with road and air transport.

Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields focuses on issues pertaining to the bearing capacity of highway and airfield pavements and railroad track structures and provided a forum to promote efficient design, construction and maintenance of the transportation infrastructure.

Eco-driving has the potential to save fuel and reduce emissions without having to make any changes to vehicles or road infrastructure.

The automotive industry currently faces huge challenges.

Essentials of Vehicle Dynamics explains the essential mathematical basis of vehicle dynamics in a concise and clear way, providing engineers and students with the qualitative understanding of vehicle handling performance needed to underpin chassis-related research and development.

With a detailed discussion on the preparation and tools needed for an automotive process audit, this book addresses the fundamental issues and concerns by focusing on two objectives: explaining the methods and tools used in the process for the organization, and provide a reference or manual for dealing with documenting quality issues.

This work serves as a reference concerning the automotive chassis, i.

The phenomenon of shock wave reflection was first reported by the distinguished philosopher Ernst Mach in 1878.

Railway Transportation Systems covers the entire range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high-speed intercity systems to suburban, regional, operating on steep gradients, and urban ones.

Passive and active safety systems (ABS, ESP, safety belts, airbags, etc.

Most approaches that contribute to the design of life-critical systems almost only consider nominal situations where procedures can be developed and used to achieve satisfactory operations.

Updated throughout for the third edition, Theory of Gearing: Kinematics, Geometry, and Synthesis is an essential resource for engineers in the field of gearing.

Rotating Machinery Research and Development Test Rigs presents the purpose and development processes for test apparatuses built for Research & Development in machinery technology and product development.

The photos in this edition are black and white.

Handbook of Human Factors for Automated, Connected, and Intelligent VehiclesSubject Guide: Ergonomics & Human Factors Automobile crashes are the seventh leading cause of death worldwide, resulting in over 1.

Get up to speed with the latest developments in automotive Ethernet technology and implementation with this fully revised second edition.

This book systematically introduces the two core technologies of hub motor and distributed drive control, and describes vehicle parameter estimation and dynamic modeling as the design basis of distributed drive control strategy based on the author's research results and engineering practice, starting from the introduction to distributed drive control of hub motor.

Commercial interest for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has seen a steady increase over the last decade.

When people think of NASCAR, many think of cars racing around a track.

Aircraft Design Concepts: An Introductory Course introduces the principles of aircraft design through a quantitative approach developed from the author's extensive experience in teaching aircraft design.

A step-by-step guide to DIY air suspension for your road car.

Completely revised including six new chapters, this new edition presents a more comprehensive knowledge of issues facing developers of complex products and process management.

Autonomous and Connected Heavy Vehicle Technology presents the fundamentals, definitions, technologies, standards and future developments of autonomous and connected heavy vehicles.

This book was developed using material from teaching courses on fluid mechanics, high-speed flows, aerodynamics, high-enthalpy flows, experimental methods, aircraft design, heat transfer, introduction to engineering, and wind engineering.

Public Transportation Quality of Service: Factors, Models, and Applications is the first book to help researchers better understand the contributing factors that can improve public transportation perception among users.

Driver Reactions to Automated Vehicles focuses on the design and evaluation of the handover to and from driver and the automobile.

This textbook surveys hydraulics and fluid power systems technology, with new chapters on system modeling and hydraulic systems controls now included.

The photos in this edition are black and white.

100 of the greatest cars from 1886 to the present day.

Engineering Writing by Design: Creating Formal Document of Lasting Value, Second Edition shows how effective writing can be achieved by thinking like an engineer.

Communication between vehicles and infrastructure will enable an entirely new way of managing and accommodating traffic, pedestrians, and the surrounding environment, changing the nature of travel going forward.

This book is based on the authors' recent research results on formation control problems, including time-varying formation, communication delays, fault-tolerant formation for multiple UAV systems with highly nonlinear and coupled, parameter uncertainties, and external disturbances.

A comprehensive and versatile treatment of an important and complex topic in vehicle design Written by an expert in the field with over 30 years of NVH experience, Noise and Vibration Control of Automotive Body offers nine informative chapters on all of the core knowledge required for noise, vibration, and harshness engineers to do their job properly.

New results, fresh ideas and new applications in automotive and flight control systems are presented in this second edition of Robust Control.

Dynamic Substructures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 39th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2021, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book focuses on the interrelationship of social, technical, and organizational aspects of and related to the product development process.