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
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Lorenzo Morello • Lorenzo Rosti Rossini • Giuseppe Pia • Andrea Tonoli
The Automotive Body Volume I: Components Design
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Contents
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .