Automotive category: 1940 books
by Wolfgang Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Hydropneumatic suspensions systems combine the excellent properties of gas springs with the favourable damping properties of hydraulic fluids. The advantages of these systems are particularly appropriate for automotive applications, such as passenger cars, trucks and agricultural equipment. In this...
Control Strategies for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Autonomous Driving Functions
Development, Testing and Verification
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This book describes different methods that are relevant to the development and testing of control algorithms for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving functions (ADF). These control algorithms need to respond safely, reliably and optimally in varying operating conditions....
Alvis
The Complete Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This book tells the story of Alvis and its cars, aero engines and military vehicles. Starting with the formation of the company in 1919, it traces the company's products through the 1920s and 1930s, and through its wartime exploits to its eventual takeover by Rover. The book covers: the early four-cylinder...
by Kevin Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Here is the definitive history of one of Britain's oldest, most important and influential car manufacturers. George Singer started building bicycles in Coventry in 1874 and by 1905 his company was building cars and motorcycles too. Later the company would concentrate on the manufacture of cars and commercial...
1964 Pontiac GTO
Muscle Cars In Detail No. 8
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
By the mid-1960s, the American automotive market was yearning for faster, more responsive, and sportier cars, and a crew of high-performance enthusiasts at Pontiac recognized this. Large V-8s were commonly installed in full-size cars, but performance was hampered by pure chassis weight. Under the...
Performance Vehicle Dynamics
Engineering and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Performance Vehicle Dynamics: Engineering and Applications offers an accessible treatment of the complex material needed to achieve level seven learning outcomes in the field. Users will gain a complete, structured understanding that enables the preparation of useful models for characterization and...
The Science of Vehicle Dynamics
Handling, Braking, and Ride of Road and Race Cars
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
This textbook covers handling and performance of both road and race cars. Mathematical models of vehicles are developed always paying attention to state the relevant assumptions and to provide explanations for each step. This innovative approach provides a deep, yet simple, analysis of the dynamics...
Triumph Stag
The Essential Buyer’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Stag enthusiast Norm Mort teams up with Stag restorer and expert Tony Fox to write this handy pocket-size guide. Triumph’s Stag combined the smoothness and performance of a V8 in stylish Italian coachwork designed by Giovanni Michelotti, which allowed for both closed and open grand touring. This...
Reciprocating Engine Combustion Diagnostics
In-Cylinder Pressure Measurement and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
This book deals with in-cylinder pressure measurement and its post-processing for combustion quality analysis of conventional and advanced reciprocating engines. It offers insight into knocking and combustion stability analysis techniques and algorithms in SI, CI, and LTC engines, and places special...
by Joop Pauwelussen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Essentials of Vehicle Dynamics explains the essential mathematical basis of vehicle dynamics in a concise and clear way, providing engineers and students with the qualitative understanding of vehicle handling performance needed to underpin chassis-related research and development. Without a sound...
by Dick Thompson, Donn Hale Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
THE STORY OF AMERICA'S FIRST MODERN TRUE SPORTS CAR
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1958): “ For nearly a quarter of a century the American highway was without a domestic automobile which could accurately be labeled a true sports car. The names Stutz, Mercer, Dusenberg, Kissell and a host of others—including...
Elektromobilität
Grundlagen einer Zukunftstechnologie
Language: German
Release Date: February 17, 2013
Das Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Herausforderungen und Lösungen zum Thema Elektromobilität. Von Gestaltungshinweisen bei der Konstruktion des Antriebsstrangs bis hin zu Ansätzen zum Aufbau der Infrastruktur wird ein breites Feld an Themen beleuchtet. Das Buch gliedert sich in...
by Jürgen Potthoff, Ingobert C. Schmid
Language: German
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Die „Kammsche Regel“ zur Verbesserung der Richtungsstabilität oder das K-Heck, das sich in der Form vieler moderner Pkws verbirgt – diese und viele andere innovativen Konzepte gehen auf Professor Kamm (1893 – 1966) zurück, den Begründer der wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Kfz-Technik....
Fahrzeuginformatik
Eine Einführung in die Software- und Elektronikentwicklung aus der Praxis der Automobilindustrie
Language: German
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Dieses Fach- und Lehrbuch enthält die heutigen Grundlagen und Sicht der Praxis zu Elektronik und Software im Fahrzeug. Es dient damit als Basis für die Umsetzung neuer Trends, wissenschaftliche Arbeiten und ökonomische Entscheidungen. Elektronikarchitektur, Softwareentwicklung und Test sowie die...