Vehicle Performance : The Fundamentals of Predicting and Optimising the Performance of Road, of...
ISBN: 9780750681162 | 0750681160
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Pub. Date: 5/16/2012
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Performance is central to all aspects of vehicle design, from concept to final manufacture and vehicle set-up. It is key skill for all engineers, whether working on mass manufactured automobiles, highly specified racing cars, heavy commercial vehicles or agricultural machinery. This book provides automotive engineers with the detailed understanding of each aspect of performance, the methods used to calculate and optimise that performance and how each separate performance factor combines at the whole vehicle level. * No other book is available which covers all aspects of vehicle performance in a single volume * Perfect for class use, but also ideal as a reference for practicing engineers * Excellent supporting text features, including case studies, examples of actual vehicles, systems and assemblies, tutorial and end of chapter exam questions, worked solutions manual and accompanying suite of MATLAB software to model and optimize performance of all classes of vehicle
| Introduction | |
| Vehicle systems affecting performance | |
| Basic vehicle characteristics affecting performance | |
| Tyre adhesion and rolling resistance | |
| Air resistance | |
| Transmission losses | |
| Vehicle moving at constant speed: Traction forces and power requirements | |
| Steady state cornering: Simple model | |
| Maximum vehicle speed | |
| Starting/First gear ratio | |
| Intermittent gear ratios | |
| Tractive effort-speed and power-speed diagrams | |
| Vehicle Acceleration | |
| Vehicle braking | |
| Fuel and energy consumption | |
| Route simulations | |
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