Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2011 Proceedings of the 3rd Inte

These proceedings capture papers presented at the third International Conferences on Sustainable Automotive Technologies (ICSAT), held at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), Greenville, South Carolina, USA, durin

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Steve Hung ⋅ Aleksandar Subic ⋅ Jörg Wellnitz Editors

Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2011 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference

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Editors Professor Steve Hung Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research Greenville USA [email protected]

Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg Wellnitz UAS-Ingolstadt Marie-Curie-Straße 6 85055 Ingolstadt Germany [email protected]

Professor Aleksandar Subic RMIT University School of Aerospace Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering P.O. Box 71 Bundoora, Victoria 3083 Australia [email protected]

ISBN 978-3-642-19052-0 e-ISBN 978-3-642-19053-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-19053-7 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011920836 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

This third volume of the book on Sustainable Automotive Technologies published by Springer is a result of extensive investigations undertaken by researchers from industry, government research institutes, and universities worldwide. The book includes a selection of 17 papers from the total of 35 contributions presented at the Conference, coming from Europe, US, Hong Kong, Australia and Columbia. The contributions that have been selected for publication in this book have been peer reviewed by an international panel of experts and edited by the Editors appointed by Springer. This publication is an important outcome of the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Automotive Technologies, ICSAT2011 that was organised in Clemson, South Carolina, US by the Clemson University International Centre for Automotive Research (ICAR), in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences Ingolstadt, Germany and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. It follows the successful launch of the first conference in this series that was held in Melbourne in 2008 and chaired by Professor Aleksandar Subic, and the subsequent second conference which was held in Chiemsee in the German Alps and chaired by Professor Joerg Wellnitz. This third conference in the series is c