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Vehicle Dynamics: Theory and Application

  • Textbook
  • Mar 2008

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Authors:
  1. Reza N. Jazar

    1. School of Aerospace Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Individual sections devoted to handling, ride, and components will be beneficial to students as future automotive designers
  • New research and coverage of damping and isolation bring in new perspectives on the subject
  • Includes coverage of front, rear, and four wheel steering systems, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of different steering schemes
  • Statement-proof-examples method of presentation is a systematic approach that students will find easy to follow
  • Includes an emphasis on design throughout the text, which provides a practical hands-on approach
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
  • Request lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Tire and Rim Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Tire and Rim Fundamentals

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      Pages 1-36

  3. One-Dimensional Vehicle Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Forward Vehicle Dynamics

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      Pages 39-94

    3. Tire Dynamics

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      Pages 95-163

    4. Driveline Dynamics

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      Pages 165-216

  4. Vehicle Kinematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Applied Kinematics

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      Pages 219-308

    3. Applied Mechanisms

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      Pages 309-377

    4. Steering Dynamics

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      Pages 379-454

    5. Suspension Mechanisms

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      Pages 455-517

  5. Vehicle Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 519-519
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    2. Applied Dynamics

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      Pages 521-581

    3. Vehicle Planar Dynamics

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      Pages 583-664

    4. Vehicle Roll Dynamics

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      Pages 665-725

  6. Vehicle Vibration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 727-727
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    2. Applied Vibrations

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      Pages 729-826

    3. Vehicle Vibrations

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      Pages 827-881

    4. Suspension Optimization

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      Pages 883-930
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About this book

This text is for engineering students. It introduces the fundamental kno- edge used in vehicle dynamics. This knowledge can be utilized to develop computer programs for analyzing the ride, handling, and optimization of road vehicles. Vehicle dynamics has been in the engineering curriculum for more than a hundred years. Books on the subject are available, but most of them are written for specialists and are not suitable for a classroom application. A new student, engineer, or researcher would not know where and how to start learning vehicle dynamics. So, there is a need for a textbook for beginners. This textbook presents the fundamentals with a perspective on future trends. The study of classical vehicle dynamics has its roots in the work of great scientists of the past four centuries and creative engineers in the past century who established the methodology of dynamic systems. The development of vehicle dynamics has moved toward modeling, analysis, and optimization of multi-body dynamics supported by some compliant members. Therefore, merging dynamics with optimization theory was an expected development. The fast-growing capability of accurate positioning, sensing, and calculations, along with intelligent computer programming are the other important developments in vehicle dynamics. So, a textbook help the reader to make a computer model of vehicles, which this book does.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Aerospace Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Reza N. Jazar

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