Automotive technology and trades

Over the past 25 years, Harold and Darren Franck have investigated hundreds of accidents involving vehicles of almost every shape, size, and type imaginable.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book presents the most up-to-date accomplishments in gear design and gear production, detailing theory of gearing and its application.

Advances in engineering precision have tracked with technological progress for hundreds of years.

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

In this book, the authors highlight multiple aspects of and views on comprehensive automotive interior comfort for future mobility.

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 covers the principles and applications of vehicle handling dynamics from an advanced perspective in depth.

Simplified fracture mechanics based assessment methods are widely used by the industry to determine the structural integrity significance of postulated cracks, manufacturing flaws, service-induced cracking or suspected degradation of engineering components under normal and abnormal service loads.

The text covers four important areas: digital manufacturing, modern manufacturing processes, modeling and simulation in smart industry, and nanotechnology.

Why is knowledge of soil stress and deformation state important for off-road locomotion?

Alternative Fuel Vehicles gives full coverage of all associated qualifications and awards in the emerging field of alternative fuels.

This book concisely describes the technologies, human perception, and cognition issues relevant to autonomous vehicles.

Fluid Power Circuits and Controls: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition, is designed for a first course in fluid power for undergraduate engineering students.

There is something special about Alfa Romeo cars which can't be defined precisely but is, perhaps, best described as a vitality that creates a symbiosis between driver and machine: a oneness that no other marque seems to replicate.

Advanced Design Problems in Aerospace Engineering, Volume 1: Advanced Aerospace Systems presents six authoritative lectures on the use of mathematics in the conceptual design of various types of aircraft and spacecraft.

Multi-Agent Systems: Platoon Control and Non-Fragile Quantized Consensus aims to present recent research results in designing platoon control and non-fragile quantized consensus for multi-agent systems.

This book focuses on the design of a multi-criteria automated vehicle longitudinal control system as an enhancement of the adaptive cruise control system.

Powertrain electrification, fuel decarburization, and energy diversification are techniques that are spreading all over the world, leading to cleaner and more efficient vehicles.

This fully updated edition presents practices and principles applicable for the reconstruction of automobile and commercial truck crashes.

An introduction to vehicle dynamics and the fundamentals of mathematical modeling Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics and Modeling is a student-focused textbook providing an introduction to vehicle dynamics, and covers the fundamentals of vehicle model development.

Automotive Innovation: The Science and Engineering behind Cutting-Edge Automotive Technology provides a survey of innovative automotive technologies in the auto industry.

This book describes the modelling and optimisation of vibration reduction systems in an integrated fashion using nonlinear equations of motion.

This book describes how to carry out safely a range of basic servicing checks and replacements, such as they will be asked routinely to carry out in a general motor workshop.

Governed by strict regulations and the intricate balance of complex interactions among variables, the application of mechanics to vehicle crashworthiness is not a simple task.

It is because the actuator is the final step in the control chain that failure can be so important and hard to compensate for.

This book explores the part that electric vehicles can play in reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Electric Vehicle Tribology provides practical, comprehensive guidance on a new and increasingly important area of tribology.

Ford FE engines, which were manufactured from the late 1950s all the way through the mid-1970s, were designated as the large-displacement engines in the Ford lineup.

This book is one of the first critical analyses of the automobile industry in India.

Turbulence takes place in most flow situations whethertheyoccur naturally or in technological systems.

This book covers three topics; 1) automotive structure foundational information, 2) the physics of important loading conditions & how they influence the structure's design, and 3) how the physics & design implications are different for the Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) configuration.

Customer expectations and international competition are obliging car and commercial vehicle manufacturers to produce more efficient and cleaner products in shorter product cycle times.

Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicles: From Concept to Reality presents a step-by-step design and development guide for heavy-duty electric vehicles.

In the field of mechanism design, kinematic synthesis is a creative means to produce mechanism solutions.

A comprehensive treatment of a large family of polymers useful in a wide range of applications in such fields as automotive, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, metal-working, mining, industrial coating, textile, construction, and home furnishings.

This book details cutting-edge research into human-like driving technology, utilising game theory to better suit a human and machine hybrid driving environment.

This book examines the fundamentals of vehicle dynamics, as well as the recent trends in the field, such as torque vectoring control, vehicle state estimation, and autonomous vehicles.

Electric drive vehicles (EDVs) are seen on American roads in increasing numbers.

This textbook introduces advanced control systems for vehicles, including advanced automotive concepts and the next generation of vehicles for ITS.

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are the way forward for sustainable growth of mobility at all levels (local, regional, national, transnational).

This text presents a four-step approach for applying communicative concepts to driving automation, including: scoping, piloting, designing, and testing.

This volume presents the theory of control systems with sliding mode applied to electrical motors and power converters.

This book is the first to fully explore the short- and long-term impact of the global electric car rollout on the supply of raw materials.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Among all aspects of engineering, design is the most important step in developing a new product.