The Automotive Body Volume I: Components Design
“The Automotive Body” consists of two volumes. The first volume produces the needful cultural background on the body; it describes the body and its components in use on most kinds of cars and industrial vehicles: the quantity of drawings that a
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		    Lorenzo Morello Lorenzo Rosti Rossini Giuseppe Pia Andrea Tonoli
 
 The Automotive Body Volume I: Components Design
 
 The Automotive Body
 
 Mechanical Engineering Series Frederick F. Ling Editor-in-Chief
 
 The Mechanical Engineering Series features graduate texts and research monographs to address the need for information in contemporary mechanical engineering, including areas of concentration of applied mechanics, biomechanics, computational mechanics, dynamical systems and control, energetics, mechanics of materials, processing, production systems, thermal science, and tribology.
 
 Advisory Board/Series Editors Applied Mechanics
 
 F.A. Leckie University of California, Santa Barbara D. Gross Technical University of Darmstadt
 
 Biomechanics
 
 V.C. Mow Columbia University
 
 Computational Mechanics
 
 H.T. Yang University of California, Santa Barbara D. Bryant University of Texas at Austin
 
 Dynamic Systems and Control/Mechatronics Energetics
 
 J.R.Welty University of Oregon, Eugene
 
 Mechanics of Materials
 
 I. Finnie University of California, Berkeley
 
 Processing
 
 K.K. Wang Cornell University
 
 Production Systems
 
 G.-A. Klutke Texas A&M University
 
 Thermal Science
 
 A.E. Bergles Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 
 Tribology
 
 W.O. Winer Georgia Institute of Technology
 
 For other titles published in this series, go to http://www.springer.com/1161
 
 Lorenzo Morello • Lorenzo Rosti Rossini • Giuseppe Pia • Andrea Tonoli
 
 The Automotive Body Volume I: Components Design
 
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 Lorenzo Morello Via Bey 5B 10090 Villarbasse Italy E-mail: [email protected]
 
 Giuseppe Pia via Filadelfia 237/8 B 10137 Torino Italy E-mail: [email protected]
 
 Lorenzo Rosti Rossini via Canova 9 20145 Milan Italy E-mail: [email protected]
 
 Andrea Tonoli via Oronte Nota 55 10051 Avigliana (TO) Italy E-mail: [email protected]
 
 ISSN 0941-5122 ISBN 978-94-007-0512-8 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0513-5 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0513-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York The accuracy and completeness of information provided in this book are not guaranteed to produce any particular results. Therefore, the Authors and the Publisher will not be liable for any direct or indirect loss or damages incurred from any use of the information contained in the book. c Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2011  No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover design: eStudio Calamar S.L. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
 
 Contents
 
 About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 
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 Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		
 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 
	