Automotive technology and trades Books

The book covers all types of advanced high strength steels ranging from dual-phase, TRIP. Complex phase, martensitic, TWIP steels to third generation steels, including promising candidates as carbide free bainitic steels, med Mn and Quenching &...

This volume collects the research papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Automotive Technologies (ICSAT), Gothenburg, 2014. The topical focus lies on latest advances in vehicle technology related to sustainable mobility...

This exciting primer on Solar Racing literally starts from the ground up, describing how the interactions of a vehicle with its environment circumscribe its ultimate success, from aerodynamics to resistance and propulsion. By demonstrating how to...

This book presents approaches to address key challenges based on a vehicle level view and with a special emphasis on Drive-by-Wire systems. The design and testing of modern vehicle electronics are becoming more and more demanding due to increasing...

This monograph provides readers with tools for the analysis, and control of systems with fewer control inputs than degrees of freedom to be controlled, i.e., underactuated systems. The text deals with the consequences of a lack...

Accurate fluid level measurement in dynamic environments can be assessed using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) approach. SVM is a supervised learning model that analyzes and recognizes patterns. It is a signal classification technique which has far...

The Rayleigh-Plesset Equation: a Simple and Powerful Tool to understand Various Aspects of Cavitation J.P. Franc Hydrodynamics and Cavitation of Pumps C.E. Brennen Cavitation Instabilities in Turbopump Inducers Y. Tsujimoto Stability Analysis of...

W. Schiehlen: Vehicle and guideway modelling: suspension systems. - H. True: Dynamics of railway vehicles: wheel-rail contact. - P. Lugner: Propulsion and handling of road vehicles: tyre models. - R. Sharp: Dynamics of motorcycles: stability and control...

Many important industrial applications incline toward better understanding of the constitutive properties of matter. Nowadays, the development of measurement possibilities, even in nanoscale, allows for multiscale formulations...

System identification is a powerful tool in engineering. Its various methods in the frequency and in the time domain have been extensively discussed in earlier CISM courses. The aim of this course is to describe the state of...

These 3-volume proceedings includes selected and reviewed papers from CONAT 2024 - the 13th edition of the International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering, held in Brasov, Romania, in November 2024. Authors are experts from research,...

This book discusses the potential of the Internet of Unmanned Things (IoUT), which is considered a promising paradigm resulting in numerous applications including shipment of goods, home package delivery, crop monitoring, agricultural surveillance, and...

This book provides a thorough and fresh treatment of the control of innovative variable-geometry vehicle suspension systems. A deep survey on the topic, which covers the varying types of existing variable-geometry suspension solutions, introduces the...

Power System Operation and Planning under Uncertainty provides the mathematical models and tools needed to plan and operate future power systems. It discusses the challenging task of the integration of a high penetration of renewable energies and...

This book reports on cutting-edge research and advances in the field of intelligent vehicle systems. It presents a broad range of AI-enabled technologies, with a focus on automated, autonomous and connected vehicle systems.  It covers advanced...

This book systematically introduces fast winding-based discharge strategies used for permanent magnet synchronous machine-based drives in electric vehicles (EVs) after a crash. The contents are from the author's final thesis securing his Ph.D. degree...

The book provides easy interpretable explanations for the key technologies involved in Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles. The authors discuss the various electrical machines, drives, and controls used in EV and HEV. The book provides a...

This book is a compilation of the recent technologies and innovations in the field of automotive embedded systems with a special mention to the role of Internet of Things in automotive systems. The book provides easy interpretable explanations for the...

This book elaborates the science and engineering basis for energy-efficient driving in conventional and autonomous cars. After covering the physics of energy-efficient motion in conventional, hybrid, and electric powertrains, the book chiefly focuses on...

This is the sixth volume of a sub series on Road Vehicle Automation published within the Lecture Notes in Mobility. The contents have been provided by researchers, engineers and analysts from all around the world. Topics covered include public sector...

This book focuses on the latest applications of nonlinear approaches in engineering and addresses a range of scientific problems. Examples focus on issues in automotive technology, including automotive dynamics, control for electric and hybrid vehicles,...

The book presents the results of the research project Fleets Go Green from different engineering disciplines. It includes comprehensive empirical data as well as different methods and tools for evaluating and integrating electric vehicles into...

Bring your vintage automobile back to its former glory with "Timeless Revival: The Ultimate Guide to Classic Car Restoration and Maintenance." Whether you're a seasoned enthusiast or embarking on your first restoration project, this comprehensive guide...

Entdecken Sie die technische Brillanz, die hinter den leistungsstärksten Rennwagen der Welt steckt - den Formel-1-Autos. In diesem Buch werden die wesentlichen Komponenten eines F1-Autos ausführlich beschrieben, darunter das Fahrwerk, die Hybridmotoren,...

Keep a record of your vehicle essential repairs and services with this detailed logbook.This Vehicle Maintenance Log Book features:  6" x 9" paperback book, which makes it handy and easy to carry 105 pages to keep track of your car...

The photos in this edition are black and white.<p>The venerable Chevy big-block engines have proven themselves for more than half a century as the power plant of choice for incredible performance on the street and strip. They were innovators and...

206 pages and profusely illustrated with more than 320 illustrations diagrams and charts, size 8.25 x 10.75 inches. The primary focus of this manual is on the 1968-1972 Mercedes-Benz 280 Series including the 280SL, 280SEL, 280S and the 280SE models...

This book throws a lifeline to designers wading through mounds of antenna array patents looking for the most suitable systems for their projects. Drastically reducing the research time required to locate solutions to the latest challenges in automotive...

Electromagnetic Signals deals with the practical applications of nonsinusoidal electromagnetic waves or carrier free radars, ultrawideband technology and large relative bandwidth technology. The book is unique since it deals...

Implementing Management Innovations: Lessons Learned from Activity Based Costing in the U.S. Automobile Industry is the result of a long-term study of the implementation of activity based costing (ABC) inside two of...

Global Mobile Satellite Systems - A Systems Overview makes mobile satellite communications understandable for communication engineers, candidates for an engineering degree, technicians, managers, and other decision makers such...

Over the last 15 years, the application of innovative steel concepts in the automotive industry has increased steadily. Numerical simulation technology of hot forming of high-strength steel allows engineers to modify the formability of hot forming steel...

Rail is potentially a very efficient form of transport, but must be convenient, reliable and cost-effective to compete with road and air transport. Optimal control can be used to find energy-efficient driving strategies for...

Although the problem of nonlinear controller design is as old as that of linear controller design, the systematic design methods framed in response are more sparse. Given the range and complexity of nonlinear systems, effective new methods of control...

Dry Clutch Control for Automated Manual Transmission Vehiclesanalyses the control of a part of the powertrain which has a key role in ride comfort during standing-start and gear-shifting manoeuvres. The mechanical conception of the various elements in...

Sliding-mode Control of PEM Fuel Cells demonstrates the application of higher-order sliding-mode control to PEMFC dynamics showing the advantages of sliding modes. The book introduces the theory of fuel cells and sliding-mode...

This proceedings volume archives the contributions of the speakers who attended the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh ...

 We sincerely hope that this book can also be used as reference material for the teaching fraternity. We hope that the book is complete in all respects. However in any case, if it lacks certain information, authors may be contacted for constructive...

The income of petroleum as fuel is declining day by day and increasing demand of fuels, as well as the gradually more strict system, pose a face to science and technology. Use of vegetable oils in diesel engines leads to slightly inferior performance and...

This content describes about the life cycle hardware design of Avionics. Explain about various phases of the design cycles like requirement capture, Design,Testing, Verification and Validation and Certification.Most of the life cycle talks about how a...

In several chapters, the author gives an overview of armaments in Europe and thus answers a wealth of questions related to the term armaments.The first chapter deals with the terms armaments, armaments economy and dual-use goods. The second chapter...

Este livro é uma introdução geral à física da propulsão espacial. O autor explica os problemas e questões do actual foguetão de propulsão espacial com base no seu desempenho, e introduz uma teoria de propulsão de campo que o ultrapassa. Além disso, é...