This handsome and well produced volume is essentially the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Stress Analysis Group of~he Institute of Physics which was held at the University of Aston in 1974. The editors state in their foreword that the Group Committee felt such a topic as 'Stress, Vibration and Noise Analysis in Vehicles' justified publication in this form as it represents a valuable contribution to the literature on the subject. Thus the reader is presented with the 23 papers read at the conference on a very wide range of topics concerned with the prediction, measurement and control of noise, vibration and stress in mainly land surface vehicles and their component parts.
Most of the contributions ( 16) are concerned with various aspects of vibration or stress analysis in the vehicles,and 5 are concerned with noise measurement and reduction. The first chapter is a review of stress, noise and vibration analysis in rail rapid transit vehicles. The remaining chapter is concerned with vibration and internal noise in automobile transmissions.
Eight of the former chapters are concerned with the use of that powerful tool the finite element technique in the stress analysis of such structures as London Transport vehicles (Chs. 1,16 and 17), light goods truck frame (Ch. 3) and body (Ch. 15), whilst the remaining three chapters are concerned with determining stress distributions in such component parts as a diesel fuel injecto nozzle, handbrake linkage and clutch design (Ch. 2), a cast iron fl~vheel (Ch. 4) and disc type wheels as used in rail stock (Ch. 5). There is a nice balance of papers from industry and from universities and joint papers which demonstrate useful and fruitful co-operation between the two.
Other chapters in this area are concerned with such things as measured and predicted strain in actual vehicles, perhaps the most interesting to the reviewer being 239