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 optimization of performance using the same Automotive or Motorsport industry techniques and approaches. As the approach to vehicle dynamics has changed over time, largely due to advances in computing power, the subject has, in practice, always been computer intensive, but this use has changed, with modeling of relatively complex vehicle dynamics topics now even possible on a PC.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Man and Cars - p. xvii 2. Chapter 2: Tyres - p. 10 3. Chapter 3: Weight Transfer and Wheel Loads - p. 52 4. Chapter 4: Straight-Line Acceleration - p. 73 5. Chapter 5: Cornering - p. 94 6. Abstract - p. 95 7. 5.1 Introduction - p. 95 8. 5.2 Yaw and Yaw Rate - p. 95 9. 5.3 Four Regimes of Cornering - p. 97 10. 5.4 Optimised Steering and Cornering Performance - p. 105 11. 5.5 The Three Regimes of Steering Response - p. 108 12. 5.6 Quantification of the Understeer Gradient - p. 113 13. 5.7 Equations of Motion for a Cornering Racing Car - p. 126 14. 5.8 Transient Response to Control Input - p. 140 15. 5.9 Multibody Code Solution for Steering Responses Using Adams - p. 155 16. 5.10 Achieving Neutral Steering Car With Critically Damped Steering - p. 157 17. 5.11 Steady-State Vehicle Response to Control and Stability - p. 160 18. 5.12 Worked Example of Applying Vehicle Derivatives Analysis - p. 174 19. 5.13 Questions - p. 177 20. 5.14 Directed Reading - p. 177 21. 5.15 Learning Projects - p. 178 22. 5.16 Internet-Based Research and Search Suggestions - p. 179 23. Chapter 6: Braking - p. 179 24. Chapter 7: Suspension Kinematics - p. 196 25. Chapter 8: Dynamic Modelling of Vehicle Suspension - p. 239 26. Chapter 9: Lap-Time, Manoeuvre and Full-Vehicle Simulation - p. 317 27. References - p. 331 28. Index - p. 333
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 optimization of performance using the same Automotive or Motorsport industry techniques and approaches. As the approach to vehicle dynamics has changed over time, largely due to advances in computing power, the subject has, in practice, always been computer intensive, but this use has changed, with modeling of relatively complex vehicle dynamics topics now even possible on a PC.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Man and Cars - p. xvii 2. Chapter 2: Tyres - p. 10 3. Chapter 3: Weight Transfer and Wheel Loads - p. 52 4. Chapter 4: Straight-Line Acceleration - p. 73 5. Chapter 5: Cornering - p. 94 6. Abstract - p. 95 7. 5.1 Introduction - p. 95 8. 5.2 Yaw and Yaw Rate - p. 95 9. 5.3 Four Regimes of Cornering - p. 97 10. 5.4 Optimised Steering and Cornering Performance - p. 105 11. 5.5 The Three Regimes of Steering Response - p. 108 12. 5.6 Quantification of the Understeer Gradient - p. 113 13. 5.7 Equations of Motion for a Cornering Racing Car - p. 126 14. 5.8 Transient Response to Control Input - p. 140 15. 5.9 Multibody Code Solution for Steering Responses Using Adams - p. 155 16. 5.10 Achieving Neutral Steering Car With Critically Damped Steering - p. 157 17. 5.11 Steady-State Vehicle Response to Control and Stability - p. 160 18. 5.12 Worked Example of Applying Vehicle Derivatives Analysis - p. 174 19. 5.13 Questions - p. 177 20. 5.14 Directed Reading - p. 177 21. 5.15 Learning Projects - p. 178 22. 5.16 Internet-Based Research and Search Suggestions - p. 179 23. Chapter 6: Braking - p. 179 24. Chapter 7: Suspension Kinematics - p. 196 25. Chapter 8: Dynamic Modelling of Vehicle Suspension - p. 239 26. Chapter 9: Lap-Time, Manoeuvre and Full-Vehicle Simulation - p. 317 27. References - p. 331 28. Index - p. 333
