Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Automotive

With contributions from leading researchers in the field, and including recent breakthrough work, this collection of recent results on near wall turbulence includes theory, new experiments, DNS, and modeling with RANS, LES and Low Order Dynamical Systems.

"Die automobile Antriebstechnik der Zukunft ist elektrisch ]." So lautete das Credo der Experten auf dem Fachkongress Elektromobilitat 2011 in Frankfurt. Vor allem politisch motiviert ruckt die Elektromobilitat in den Mittelpunkt der offentlichen Diskussion. Die Europaische Union verabschiedete 2009 eine Verordnung zur Minderung der CO2-Emissionen fur neue Personenkraftwagen und die Bundesregierung verfolgt die Zielvorgabe von einer Million Elektrofahrzeugen auf Deutschlands Strassen bis zum Jahr 2020. Doch welches Potenzial besitzen Elektrofahrzeuge tatsachlich? Konnen sie einen...

This will be a spin-off volume from a special volume of the International Journal of Fracture. It will capture the current models, theories and experiments related to fracture and fragmentation. As such, it will be a good reference work in this area.

Rapid developments in electronics over the past two decades have induced a move from purely mechanical vehicles to mechatronics design. Recent advances in computing, sensors, and information technology are pushing mobile equipment design to incorporate higher levels of automation under the concept of intelligent vehicles. Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles introduces this new concept, and provides an overview of the recent applications and future approaches within this field. Real examples are provided of vehicles designed to move in off-road environments,...

Adaptive Control of Flexible Structures deals with vibration control for large-scale flexible structures which are, or may be, subject to a broadband primary vibration field. The authors present a complete rationale for solving problems of vibration, from experimental structural characterization to controller implementation. In reaching this objective they address the following steps:

- experimental identification of the dynamic model of the structure;

- optimal placement of sensors and actuators;

- formulation of control constraints in terms of controller...

The automotive industry faces constant pressure to reduce development costs and time while still increasing vehicle quality. To meet this challenge, engineers and researchers in both science and industry are developing effective strategies and flexible tools by enhancing and further integrating powerful, computer-aided design technology. This book provides a valuable overview of the development tools and methods of today and tomorrow. It is targeted not only towards professional project and design engineers, but also to students and to anyone who is interested in state-of-the-art...

Structural design sensitivity analysis concerns the relationship between design variables available to the design engineer and structural responses determined by the laws of mechanics. The dependence of response measures such as displacement, stress, strain, natural frequency, buckling load, acoustic response, frequency response, noise-vibration-harshness (NVH), thermo-elastic response, and fatigue life on the material property, sizing, component shape, and configuration design variables is defined through the governing equations of structural mechanics. In this 2-volume set, first- and...