Automotive technology and trades

This new edition continues to focus on the nuts and bolts of wireless network access for devices on board vehicles.

This book presents recent advances in the development of biomaterials for industrial applications, and discusses the potential for substituting environmentally hazardous substances with environmentally friendly and degradable components.

The main goal of this book is to show how to modify and optimize the properties of the damping matrix in order to find the most beneficial way of adding damping to a given mechanical system.

This book is the second volume reflecting the shift in the design paradigm in automobile industry.

This book is the fourth volume of the sub series of the Lecture Notes in Mobility dedicated to Road Vehicle Automation.

This book introduces the concept of software architecture as one of the cornerstones of software in modern cars.

This book offers an advanced treatise of the mechanics of springs with focus on the springs for automotive industry.

This book details aluminum alloys with special focus on the aluminum silicon (Al-Si) systems - that are the most abundant alloys second only to steel.

This must-read text/reference introduces the fundamental concepts of convolutional neural networks (ConvNets), offering practical guidance on using libraries to implement ConvNets in applications of traffic sign detection and classification.

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

This intermediate textbook is appropriate for students in vehicle dynamics courses, in their last year of undergraduate study or their first year of graduate study.

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.

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.