Motor Vehicle Dynamics: Modelling And Simulation

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World Scientific, Apr 19, 1997 - Technology & Engineering - 600 pages
The book starts with an historical overview of road vehicles. The first part deals with the forces exchanged between the vehicle and the road and the vehicle and the air with the aim of supplying the physical facts and the relevant mathematical models about the forces which dominate the dynamics of the vehicle.The second part deals with the dynamic behaviour of the vehicle in normal driving conditions with some extensions towards conditions encountered in high-speed racing driving.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Short historical notes on motor vehicles
1
Chapter 2 Forces acting between road and wheel
33
Chapter 3 Road vehicle aerodynamics
89
Chapter 4 Longitudinal dynamics
133
Chapter 5 Handling of a rigid vehicle
205
Chapter 6 Motor vehicle on elastic suspensions
325
Chapter 7 Road accidents
445
Appendix A
507
Bibliography
519
Index
521
Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences
525
SERIES ON ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS FOR APPLIED SCIENCES
527
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