The Automotive Chassis Vol. 2: System Design
The Automotive Chassis is the result of two decades of experience: On the one hand from the experience of teaching courses such as Vehicle Mechanics, Vehicle System Design, Chassis Design to engineering students; on the other hand from the design practice
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Giancarlo Genta Lorenzo Morello
The Automotive Chassis Volume 2: System Design
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The Automotive Chassis
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
Dynamic Systems and Control/ Mechatronics
D. Bryant University of Texas at Austin
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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Giancarlo Genta
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Lorenzo Morello
The Automotive Chassis Vol. 2: System Design
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Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Genta Politecnico Torino Dipartimento di Meccanica Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino Italy [email protected]
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8673-1
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Morello Politecnico di Torino Ingegneria dell’Autoveicolo via Nizza, 230 10126 Torino Italy [email protected].
e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8675-5
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CONTENTS
SYMBOLS LIST
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FUNCTIONS AND SPECIFICATIONS
INTRODUCTION TO PART III
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17 TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS 17.1 Traffic volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.2 Operating fleet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.3 Social impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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18 VEHICLE FUNCTIONS 18.1 System design . . . . . 18.2 Objective requirements 18.3 Subjective requirements 18.4 Aging resistance . . . .
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19 REGULATIONS 19.1 Vehicle system . 19.2 Wh
