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Automotive Engineering: Powertrain, Chassis System and Vehicle Body
Author(s): David Crolla (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication Date: 17 Aug. 2009
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 850 pages
- ISBN-10: 1856175774
- ISBN-13: 9781856175777
Book Description
* A hard-working Desk Reference, providing all the essential material needed by Automotive Engineers on a day-to-day basis.
* Fundamentals, key techniques, engineering best practice and rules-of-thumb together in one quick-reference sourcebook.
* Definitive content by the leading authors in the field.
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About the Author
Following 10 years with Richard Thomas and Baldwins Ltd. (now Corus) engaged mainly on research into sheet steel products destined for the automotive industry, a further 35 years was spent on materials technology focused on the car body. This included spells at The Pressed Steel Company, Austin-Morris, BL Technology, Rover and finally BMW UK. Experience included all aspects of material selection raging from sheet steel to aluminium and polymers together with a detailed knowlege of most processing aspects such as pressing, painting and welding. Corrosion prevention was a major feature of recent years and collaborative work with Oxford University helped optimise the use of zinc coated steels on current bodywork.
David Hoyle is an international management consultant with over 30 years’ experience in quality management. He has held senior positions in quality management with British Aerospace and Ferranti International and worked with such companies as General Motors, the UK Civil Aviation Authority and Bell Atlantic on their quality improvement programmes. As well as delivering quality management and auditor training courses throughout the world, he has participated in various industry councils and committees, including the Institute of Quality Assurance.
A.J. (Tony) Martyr has been either the sole or a co-author of all editions of ‘Engine Testing’. For the last 50 years he has held senior technical positions in companies, internationally involved in the design and testing of automotive and marine powertrains. His published works include a book on Project Management, and papers on subjects covering Dynamometry and the International Transfer of Technology.
1934 Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1946-1951 Highschools in Rotterdam and Bandung (Indonesia)
1959 MSc. degree in Mechanical Engineering at TU-Delft
1966 Ph.D. degree at the Delft University of Technology
Thesis on the Wheel Shimmy Phenomenon
Advisers: Prof. De Pater and Prof. Van Eldik Thieme
!966-1996 Professor of Vehicle System Engineering
Delft University of Technology
1971 Visiting professor at HSRI (UMTRI), University of Michigan
!972-1989 Editor in Chief of journal Vehicle System Dynamics
1977-1989 Secretary General of the International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD)
!989 Honorary Doctorate
Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology
1993-2006 Consultant TNO-Automotive, The Netherlands
1994-2000 President of IAVSD
2002- 2012 Author of book (1st, 2nd ,3d editions) ‘Tire and Vehicle Dynamics’
Hans’ areas of expertise include theoretical and experimental research on the dynamics of road vehicles and on the mechanical behaviour of pneumatic tires, and Bond graph modeling of dynamic systems.
