
Braking of Road Vehicles
Butterworth-Heinemann (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 23. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
548 pages
978-0-12-822005-4 (ISBN)
Description
Braking of Road Vehicles, Second Edition includes updated and new subject matter related to the technological advances of road vehicles such as hybrid and electric vehicles and "self-driving" and autonomous vehicles. New material to this edition includes root causes, guidelines, experimental and measurement techniques, brake NVH identification and data analysis, CAE and dynamic modelling, advances in rotor and stator materials, manufacturing methods, changes to European and US legislation since 2014, recent developments in technology, methods and analysis, and new and updated case studies.
This new edition will continue to be of interest to engineers and technologists in automotive and road transport industries, automotive engineering students and instructors, and professional staff in vehicle-related legislational, legal, military, security and investigative functions.
This new edition will continue to be of interest to engineers and technologists in automotive and road transport industries, automotive engineering students and instructors, and professional staff in vehicle-related legislational, legal, military, security and investigative functions.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Woburn
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
200 illustrations (140 in full color); Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
935 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-822005-4 (9780128220054)
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Andrew J. Day | David Bryant
Braking of Road Vehicles
E-Book
03/2022
2nd Edition
Butterworth-Heinemann
€113.00
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Previous edition
Andrew J. Day
Braking of Road Vehicles
Book
10/2018
Butterworth-Heinemann
€74.39
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Persons
Andrew Day is the former Dean of the School of Engineering, Design, and Technology, at the University of Bradford, UK and course leader of the university's well-known Braking of Road Vehicles course (widely referred to as 'The Braking Course') for engineers in industry. David Bryant is Senior Lecturer in Automotive Engineering at the University of Bradford. His research interests centre on vehicle brakes and braking systems with a particular focus on noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) and braking instabilities. He has completed numerous industrial research projects in the field of brakes and braking systems. In 2013 he became Course Director for the annual Braking of Road Vehicles short course.
Author
Ford Professor of Quality Engineering and Director of the University of Bradford Centre for Automotive Research, University of Bradford, UK
Sr. Lecturer - Automotive Engineering, University of Bradford, UK
Content
1. Introduction
2. Friction Pairs
3. Braking System Design for Passenger Cars and Light Vans
4. Braking System Design for Vehicle and Trailer Combinations
5. Brake Design Analysis
6. Brake System Layout Design
7. Brake-by-Wire and Electronic Braking Systems
8. Autonomous and Regenerative Braking
9. Thermal Effects in Friction Brakes
10. Brake Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH)
11. Brake Testing
12. Braking Legislation
13. Case Studies in the Braking of Road Vehicles
2. Friction Pairs
3. Braking System Design for Passenger Cars and Light Vans
4. Braking System Design for Vehicle and Trailer Combinations
5. Brake Design Analysis
6. Brake System Layout Design
7. Brake-by-Wire and Electronic Braking Systems
8. Autonomous and Regenerative Braking
9. Thermal Effects in Friction Brakes
10. Brake Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH)
11. Brake Testing
12. Braking Legislation
13. Case Studies in the Braking of Road Vehicles