Automotive technology and trades

This thesis presents a novel ultrasonic instrument for non-invasive and in-situ characterization of journal bearing lubricant viscosity.

The book discusses the emerging topic of comprehensive energy management in electric vehicles from the viewpoint of academia and from the industrial perspective.

This book assembles new methods showing the automotive engineer for the first time how hybrid vehicle configurations can be modeled as systems with discrete and continuous controls.

This book presents the proceedings of the first vehicle engineering and vehicle industry conference.

Starting from the beginning, this book explains the development process of all parts related to the topics tire, wheel and tire pressure monitoring system.

This book focuses on automotive user interfaces for in-vehicle usage, looking at car electronics, its software of hidden technologies (e.

This book explores, describes and explains the predictors essential for the acceptance of social media as a digital platform to share professional knowledge in the field of automotive repair in Germany.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction into the SPES XT modeling framework.

The volumes includes selected and reviewed papers from the 1st ETA Conference on Energy and Thermal Management, Air Conditioning and Waste Heat Recovery in Berlin, December 1-2, 2016.

This book presents a series of high performance product design (PD) and development best practices that can create or improve product development organization.

This monograph focuses on control methods that influence vehicle dynamics to assist the driver in enhancing passenger comfort, road holding, efficiency and safety of transport, etc.

This book offers readers a thorough and rigorous introduction to nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) for discrete-time and sampled-data systems.

This book discusses cars of the future and the new socio-economic paradigm that they represent.

The volume includes selected and reviewed papers from the 3rd Conference on Ignition Systems for Gasoline Engines in Berlin in November 2016.

The volume will include selected and reviewed papers from CONAT - International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering to be held in Brasov, Romania, in October 2016.

This book introduces readers from diverse backgrounds to the principles underlying nanotechnology, from devices to systems, while also describing in detail how businesses can use nanotechnology to redesign their products and processes, in order to have a clear edge over their competition.

This book contains the papers presented at the 20th anniversary edition of the AMAA conference held in Brussels, Belgium in 2016.

This book outlines issues related to massive integration of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles into power grids.

This book describes the importance of catalysis for the sustainable production of biofuels and biochemicals, focusing primarily on the state-of-the-art catalysts and catalytic processes expected to play a decisive role in the "e;green"e; production of fuels and chemicals from biomass.

This book deals with the analysis of off-road vehicle dynamics from kinetics and kinematics perspectives and the performance of vehicle traversing over rough and irregular terrain.

 This book provides a systematic assessment of the performance of electric and hybrid buses in urban areas on a daily basis and presents a complete set of technical scenarios to promote their efficient exploitation.

This book provides a concise study of eye gaze tracking as a direct controller of electronic displays and interfaces inside cars and other vehicles.

This edited book comprises papers about the impacts, benefits and challenges of connected and automated cars.

This monograph adresses the challenge of the environmental assessment of leightweight electric vehicles.

This book provides comprehensive and integrated approaches for rigid and flexible object assembly.

This book presents research advances in automotive AC systems using an interdisciplinary approach combining both thermal science, and automotive engineering.

This book highlights the current challenges for engineers involved in product development and the associated changes in procedure they make necessary.

This book introduces the issues and problems that arise when implementing smart energy management for sustainable manufacturing in the automotive manufacturing industry and the analytical tools and applications to deal with them.

The book includes contributions on the latest model-based methods for the development of personal and commercial vehicle control devices.

The bookdeals with the increasingly complex test systems for powertrain components andsystems giving an overview of the diverse types of test beds for allcomponents of an advanced powertrain focusing on specific topics such asinstrumentation, control, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, automation or testfacility management.

The book presents - based on the most recent research and development results worldwide -  the perspectives of new propulsion concepts such as electric cars with batteries and fuel cells, and furthermore plug in hybrids with conventional and alternative fuels.

The main topics of this book include advanced control, cognitive data processing, high performance computing, functional safety, and comprehensive validation.

This book analyzes the main problems in the real-timecontrol of parallel hybrid electric powertrains in non-road applications thatwork in continuous high dynamic operation.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of Camera Monitor Systems (CMS), ranging from the ISO 16505-based development aspects to practical realization concepts.

This Brief addresses the phenomena of heat transfer enhancement.

This book presents topics on monitoring and evaluation of production processes in the automotive industry.

This book presents cutting-edge work onthe most challenging research issues concerning intelligent transportationsystems (ITS), introducing selected, highly relevant advanced research onscheduling and real-time communication for vehicular networks, as well as faulttolerance, test beds and simulations for ITS.

The volume includes selected and reviewed papers from the European Automotive Congress held in Bucharest, Romania, in November 2015.

This bookcomprehensively presents the computational design of rolling bearings dealingwith many interdisciplinary difficult working fields.

This book looks at the broad field of engineering science through the lens of nonlinear approaches.

Based on newinformation obtained on free microjets, this book explains the latest phenomenain flame evolution in the presence of a transverse acoustic field with roundand plane propane microjet combustion.

This contributed volume contains the results of the research program "e;Agreement for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles"e;, developed in the framework of the Energy Technology Network of the International Energy Agency.

Maximizing reader insights into the key scientific disciplines of Machine Tool Metrology, this text will prove useful for the industrial-practitioner and those interested in the operation of machine tools.

For the first time, a textbook that brings together classical predictive control with treatment of up-to-date robust and stochastic techniques.

This edited monograph collects theoretical, empirical and political contributions from different fields, focusing on the commercial launch of electric mobility, and intending to shed more light on the complexity of supply and demand.

This book presents seven chapters examining selected noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) topics that are highly relevant for automotive vehicle development.

This book focuses on natural gas and synthetic methane as contemporary and future energy sources.

This edited volume presents the proceedings of the AMAA 2015 conference, Berlin, Germany.

Explaining in detail how new e-mobility technologies work, and the system requirements which must be fulfilled for these new technologies to be implemented, this book augments this analysis with discussion of the business models, financing and social and economic conditions that will foster the emergence of a new e-mobility industry.

This volume contains papers presented at the International conference "e;The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles III: Trucks, Buses and Trains"e; held in Potsdam, Germany, September 12-17, 2010 by Engineering Conferences International (ECI).