Total Vehicle Technology
Challenging Current Thinking
Published on 19. September 2001
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-1-86058-324-7 (ISBN)
Description
Streamline technological integration with updated design
The automotive industry is consistently confronted with new challenges in design and manufacturing. Total Vehicle Technology: Challenging Current Thinking highlights the ways in which current methods are evolving in the face of new technology, new legislation, and new consumer demands. Integrating the latest technology into new designs requires consideration of cost, comfort, safety, environmental effects, and more; this book offers real-world solutions based on both new and established practices to provide insight for forward-looking automotive engineers.
The automotive industry is consistently confronted with new challenges in design and manufacturing. Total Vehicle Technology: Challenging Current Thinking highlights the ways in which current methods are evolving in the face of new technology, new legislation, and new consumer demands. Integrating the latest technology into new designs requires consideration of cost, comfort, safety, environmental effects, and more; this book offers real-world solutions based on both new and established practices to provide insight for forward-looking automotive engineers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86058-324-7 (9781860583247)
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Person
Peter R. N. Childs is the author of Total Vehicle Technology: Challenging Current Thinking, published by Wiley.
Content
Part 1 Safety systems: x-by-wire technology, D.A. Sanders and A. Baldwin; strategies and technologies for advanced airbag regulations, S. Anishetty and D.R. Little; the influence of Euro-NCAP on frontal impact safety, D. Haywood and M. Stonefrost. Part 2 Transport and energy: issues in the development of fuel cell systems for vehicles, R.K. Stobart; the saturated liquid reservoir for energy storage in hybrid vehicles, F.J. Bayley; low CO2 per kW engine concept, M.L.S. Flint; digital road maps for intelligent transport systems, H. Bendafi and F. McCullough. Part 3 Analysis and calculation: more analysis, less vehicle testing - the management of risk, H. Jordan; automated analysis and design modification of an engine mounting bracket, M. Pinfold et al; development of a defrost system using CFD analysis, N.I.A. Haidar; a numerical and experimental investigation into improving vehicle windshield defrosting and demisting, A. Aroussi et al. Part 4 Simulation and testing: the re-engineering of specifications expressed in terms of Finite State Machines through simulation and testing techniques, C. Giordano et al; vibration simulation and comfort assessment as part of the vehicle design and development process, J. Venor; order and digital order tracking using a synthesized phase reference signal to improve the quality of the tracks, A.J. Bennetts; design validation, test correlation and added value testing methods, R.D. Atkins; advances in the measurement of vehicle body stiffness, N.D. Rosam and S.J. Brooks; visual noise investigation of a four-piston, opposed-type caliper, J.D. Fieldhouse and C.A. Beveridge; analysis of data derived from a real disc brake system generating noise, C. Talbot and J.D. Fieldhouse. Part 5 Modelling: CAE optimization tools for developing vehicle ride comfort, D. Treneer et al; optimization of a sports prototype race car for the Le Mans 24-hour race, R. Dominy; probability distributions for modelling in-cylinder air velocities in a G-DI internal combustion engine, S. Savic et al; new approaches to analytical and numerical modelling of fuel sprays, S.S. Sazhin et al; physical versus neural network models of automotive dampers, A. Patel and J.F. Dunne. Part 6 Production: the use of distributed intelligence within advanced production machinery for design applications, G.E. Tewkesbury and D.A. Sanders; an automatic system for simple spot welding tasks, D.A. Sanders and Z. Rasol. Part 7 Design: the styling process, C. Milburn and P.R.N. Childs.