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- Describes the vehicle as a complex system
- Shows how to translate qualitative and subjective customer’s expectations into quantitative and objective design specifications
- Offers a guide to the design of a vehicle as a complex system
- Includes worked examples, exercises and details on different types of vehicles
Part of the book series: Mechanical Engineering Series (MES)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Functions and Specifications
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Front Matter
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The Chassis as a Part of the Vehicle System
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Front Matter
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Mathematical Modeling
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Keywords
- Transportation Statistics
- Vehicle Specifications
- Vehicle Regulations
- Vehicular Chassis
- Passive safety
- Active safety
- Lateral dynamics control
- Reduction of aerodynamic drag
- Reduction of rolling resistance
- Traction Dynamic Performance
- Power Required for Motion
- Reducing Fuel Consumption
- CO2/NOx-emissions
- Braking Dynamic Performance
- Understeering vehicle
- Oversteering vehicle
- Braking Control Systems
- Active Suspensions
- By Wire Systems
- Models of vehicle collision
Authors and Affiliations
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Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello
About the authors
Lorenzo Morello received his degree on Mechanical Automotive Engineering in 1968 from the Politecnico of Torino. He started his professional career at the Politecnico as an Assistant of Machine Design and Technologies. In 1971 he moved to FIAT, and contributed to the development of some cars and of experimental prototypes for the ESV US Program. He also developed some mathematical model for vehicle suspension and road holding simulation. In 1977, he was appointed manager of the Vehicle Research Unit at FIAT, where he lead the development of many prototypes, such as a urban bus with unitized thin steel sheet body and spot welded joints and a hybrid car. In 1980 he was appointed manager of the Engines Research Unit in the same company. In 1983, he was appointed Director of Products Development. His Division of about 400 people was carrying out power train, chassis and bodies studies, as well as prototype construction. He then joined Fiat Auto and lead to the development of some new car petrol engines and the direct injection diesel (the first in the world for automobile application). He was appointed Director for Power Train Engineering in 1987. In 1994, he was appointed Director of Vehicle Engineering at Fiat, and guided the design and testing of bodies, chassis components, electric and electronic systems, wind tunnels, safety center and other facilities. Upon his retirement in 1999, he became consultant of strategic planning at Elasis. Together with the Fiat Research Center, Lorenzo Morello contributed to the planning of some courses at the Faculty of Automotive Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino. He served as contract professor of Vehicle System Design and of Automotive Transmissions Design at both the Politecnico di Torino and the University of Naples. He coauthored The Automotive Body, published by Springer in 2011 (ISBN 978-94-007-0515-9).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Automotive Chassis
Book Subtitle: Volume 2: System Design
Authors: Giancarlo Genta, Lorenzo Morello
Series Title: Mechanical Engineering Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35709-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35708-5Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35711-5Published: 02 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35709-2Published: 18 December 2019
Series ISSN: 0941-5122
Series E-ISSN: 2192-063X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXI, 962
Number of Illustrations: 363 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Automotive Engineering, Automotive Industry, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Engineering Design