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.
Table of Contents
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
Authors
Marko Tirovic Course Director, Automotive Engineering, Cranfield University, UK.
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