Automotive technology and trades Books

This research book provides state-of-the-art advances in several areas of energy generation from, and environmental impact of, fuels and biofuels. It also presents novel developments in the areas of biofuels and products from various feedstock materials...

The book includes the best articles presented by researchers, academicians and industrial experts at the International Conference on "Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2018)". The book discusses...

This book not only explores catalysis processes in redox reactions but also proposes a potential after-treatment strategy. Summarizing the authors' major works, it offers a guidebook for those working on environmental and industrial catalysis. It...

These proceedings collect selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Green Intelligent Transportation System and Safety held in Nanjing on July 1-4, 2016. The selected works, which include state-of-the-art studies, are intended...

This proceedings volume gathers outstanding papers submitted to the 2016 SAE-China Congress, the majority of which are from China, the biggest car maker as well as most dynamic car market in the world. The book includes insights into the current...

The book presents the best articles presented by researchers, academicians and industrial experts in the International Conference on "Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2016)". The book discusses...

These proceedings gather outstanding papers submitted to the 2015 SAE-China Congress, the majority of which are from China, the biggest car maker as well as most dynamic car market in the world. The book covers a wide range of automotive topics,...

The conventional approach to through-life-support for aircraft structures can be divided into the following phases: (i) detection of defects, (ii) diagnosis of their nature and significance, (iii) forecasting future ...

"During the last two decades, research on structural optimization became increasingly concerned with two aspects: the application of general numeri­ cal methods of optimization to structural design of complex real structures,...

This textbook deals with optimization of dynamic systems. The motivation for undertaking this task is as follows: There is an ever increasing need to produce more efficient, accurate, and lightweight mechanical and ...

This book is devoted to the PSI method. Its appearance was a reaction to the unsatisfactory situation in applications of optimization methods in engineering. After comprehensive testing of the PSI method in various fields of...

This book is addressed to designers of photodetectors and photodetecting systems, designers of focal plane arrays, charge-coupled devices, specialists in IR technologies, designers of optoelectronic detecting, guiding and...

The book is concerned with mathematical modelling of supersonic and hyper­ sonic flows about bodies. Permanent interest in this topic is stimulated, first of all, by aviation and aerospace engineering. The designing of aircraft...

The aim of this book is to present pedestrian injuries from a biomechanical perspective. We aim to give a detailed treatment of the physics of pedestrian impact, as well as a review of the accident databases and the relevant injury criteria used to...

The book presents the best articles presented by researchers, academicians and industrial experts in the International Conference on "Innovative Design, Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering". The book discusses new...

The goods sent through waterway are known as cargo. Cargo insurance is also called marine cargo insurance. It covers physical damage or loss of your goods while in transit by land, sea, and air. Cargo Insurance covers loss and/or damage during the...

Direct injection spark-ignition engines are becoming increasingly important, and their potential is still to be fully exploited. Increased power and torque coupled with further reductions in fuel consumption and emissions will be the clear trend for...

Piston rings - Piston pins - Bearings and bushings - Connecting rods - Crankcases and cylinder liners

Als beispielorientierte Einführung wie als praxisgerechtes Nachschlagewerk bewährt und geeignet. Das Buch zeigt topaktuell die sinnvollen Arbeitsschritte unter Nutzung der neuesten Releasestände. Die 3. Auflage wurde um Abschnitte und Kapitel erweitert,...

Andreas Riener studies the influence of implicit interaction using vibro-tactile actuators as additional sensory channels for car-driver feedback and pressure sensor arrays for implicit information transmission from the driver...

Marko Wolf provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging area of vehicular IT security. Having identified potential threats, attacks, and attackers for current and future vehicular IT applications, the author presents...

Der Autor stellt Optimierungsmaßnahmen für die gängigsten Nebenaggregate von Verbrennungsmotoren im Hinblick auf deren Einfluss auf den Kraftstoffverbrauch vor. Unter Berücksichtigung der entstehenden Kosten zeigt sich, dass...

Die Mechatronik im Fahrzeug hat heute entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Gestaltung der Radaufhängungen, Bremsen und Lenkungen und die dadurch möglichen aktiven Eingriffe. Regelungen ermöglichen so eine Beeinflussung der ...

Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Engineering - Automotive Engineering, grade: 1.7, University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim (University of Applied Science), course: Electrotech, language: English, abstract: In this thesis, the Failure...

This book focuses on the investigation of innovative engine technologies that can improve the efficiency of internal combustion engines and reduce their environmental impact. In particular, water injection is examined as a means of improving engine...

Maximilian Andreas Weber adressiert die Umsetzung von echtzeitfähigen Verlustmodellen in der automobilen Steuergeräte-Software vor dem Hintergrund begrenzter Rechenressourcen. Den Schwerpunkt bildet ein generischer Ansatz zur recheneffizienten...

Lorenz Georg Görne presents a method (PrOComp) for optimal usage of the transmission path between the vehicle and the data backend. The compression ratio of vehicle measurement data could be improved from roughly a factor of ten in conventional...

Our lives depend on automotive cybersecurity, protecting us inside and near vehicles. If vehicles go rogue, they can operate against the driver's will and potentially drive off a cliff or into a crowd. The "Automotive Security Analyzer for Exploitability...

Given the limitations of state-of-the-art methods, this book presents a state of health (SOH) forecasting method that is suitable for lithium-ion battery (LIB) systems in real-world battery electric vehicle operation. Its histogram-based features can...

In dem vorliegenden Buch wird der Einsatz eines hybriden Regelungskonzeptes für die Fahrdynamikregelung eines autonomen Versuchsträgers untersucht. Dabei wird ein modellbasierter, kaskadierter Querdynamikregler um ein künstliches neuronales Netzwerk...

Sebastian K. Crönert presents a new, automated process that makes it possible to obtain all the fuel properties required for combustion simulation. If necessary, these are then transferred - also automatically - into specially created correlation...

Marvin Sascha Wahl presents the possibilities for optimising diesel engine combustion. In the advanced process of partially premixed diesel combustion, nitrogen oxide and soot emissions can be minimised at the same time. A new feature is the possibility...

Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte des Tagungsbands zur ATZlive-Veranstaltung "Antriebe und Energiesysteme von morgen 2022" sind elektrifizierte Antriebsstränge, Wasserstoff in der Fahrzeugtechnik sowie Systems Engineering. Die Tagung ist eine unverzichtbare...

Band IIn einer sich rasant verändernden Welt sieht sich die Automobilindustrie fast täglichmit neuen Herausforderungen konfrontiert: Der problematischer werdende Rufdes Dieselmotors, verunsicherte Verbraucher durch die in der Berichterstattungvermischte...

Tunan Shen aims to increase the availability of powertrain systems for autonomous electric vehicles by improving the diagnostic capability for critical faults. Following the fault analysis of powertrain systems in battery electric vehicles, the focus is...

Jan Przewlocki provides a deep insight into the post-oxidation processes in an exhaust manifold of an SI engine. Besides the evaluation of 3D-CFD simulation results, tools are developed to evaluate them in a target-oriented way. In addition, a 1D...

In the last decade unsupervised pattern discovery in time series, i.e. the problem of finding recurrent similar subsequences in long multivariate time series without the need of querying subsequences, has earned more and more attention in research and...

Storing energy is one of the most important challenges of our time. Energy storage systems are not only essential for switching to renewable energy sources, but also for all mobile applications. Electro-mechanical flywheel energy storage systems (FESS)...

The reader will first learn to measure his racing car himself in order to ultimately get to know and understand the car's setup better. This is followed successively by the teaching of the basics with the claim of immediate applicability of the knowledge...

„Wasserstoff in der Fahrzeugtechnik" bietet einen allgemeinen Überblick über die verschiedenen Aspekte von Eigenschaften, Erzeugung, Speicherung und Anwendung von Wasserstoff. Schwerpunkte liegen auf der Thermodynamik der Speicherung von Wasserstoff...

Sebastian Hann describes the development of a quasi-dimensional burn rate model that enables the prediction of a fuel variation, without the need for a recalibration of the model. The model is valid for spark-ignition combustion engines powered by...

Water injection is one of the most promising technologies to improve the engine combustion efficiency, by mitigating knock occurrences and controlling exhaust gas temperature before turbine. As result, the engine can operate at stoichiometric conditions...

Due to the improvements on electric motors and motor control technology, alternative vehicle power system layouts have been considered. One of the latest is known as distributed drive electric vehicles (DDEVs), which consist of four motors that are...