The Automotive Chassis: Volume 2: System Design

✍ Scribed by Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 980
• Series: Mechanical Engineering Series
• Edition: 2nd Ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook draws on the authors’ experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.g. vehicle mechanics, vehicle system design, and chassis design; and on their practical experience as engineering designers for vehicle and chassis components at a major automotive company. The book is primarily intended for students of automotive engineering, but also for all technicians and designers working in this field. Other enthusiastic engineers will also find it to be a useful technical guide. The present volume (The Automotive Chassis – Volume 2: System Design) focuses on the automotive chassis as a system, providing readers with the knowledge needed to integrate the individual components described in Volume 1 in a complex system that satisfies customers’ expectations. Special emphasis is given to factors influencing system performance, including:
- the influence of the powertrain on vehicle performance. Conventional, hybrid and electric powertrains are considered;
- factors influencing vehicles’ handling performance;
- factors influencing vehicles’ comfort performance; and
- factors influencing vehicles’ stability and strategies for accident avoidance (active safety).
In addition, this second volume thoroughly covers topics that are usually neglected in other books about the automotive chassis, such as:
- the basics of vehicle aerodynamics;
- internal combustion engines, electric motors and batteries; and
- mathematical modeling tools.
This thoroughly revised second edition has been updated to reflect the latest advances in electric and hybrid vehicles, electronic control systems and autonomous driving.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-3
Transportation Statistics (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 5-34
Vehicle Functions (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 35-69
Regulations (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 71-98
Front Matter ....Pages 99-100
General Characteristics (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 101-122
An Overview on Motor Vehicle Aerodynamics (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 123-171
Prime Movers for Motor Vehicles (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 173-249
Driving Dynamic Performance (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 251-297
Braking Dynamic Performance (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 299-312
Handling Performance (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 313-419
Comfort Performance (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 421-503
Driving Assistance and Autonomous Vehicles (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 505-591
Perspectives of Future Evolution (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 593-616
Front Matter ....Pages 617-618
Mathematical Models for the Vehicle (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 619-626
Multibody Modelling (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 627-694
Transmission Models (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 695-734
Models for Tilting Body Vehicles (Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello)....Pages 735-785
Back Matter ....Pages 787-962

✦ Subjects

Automotive Engineering