“The Automotive Body” consists of two volumes.
The first volume produced the needful cultural background on the body; it described the body and its components in use on most kinds of cars and industrial vehicles: the quantity of drawings that are presented allows the reader to familiarize with the design features and to understand functions, design motivations and fabrication feasibility, in view of the existing production processes.
The purpose of this second volume is to explain the links which exist between satisfying the needs of the customer (either driver or passenger) and the specifications for vehicle design, and between the specifications for vehicle system and components. For this study a complete vehicle system must be considered, including, according to the nature of functions that will be discussed, more component classes than considered in Volume I, and, sometimes, also part of the chassis and the powertrain.
These two books about the vehicle body may be added to those about the chassis and are part of a series sponsored by ATA (the Italian automotive engineers association) on the subject of automotive engineering; they follow the first book, published in 2005 in Italian only, about automotive transmission.
They cover automotive engineering from every aspect and are the result of a five-year collaboration between the Polytechnical University of Turin and the University of Naples on automotive engineering.
The Automotive Body
Mechanical Engineering Series Frederick F. Ling Editor-in-Chief
The Mechanical Engineering Series features graduate texts and research monographs to address the need for information in contemporary mechanical engineering, including areas of concentration of applied mechanics, biomechanics, computational mechanics, dynamical systems and control, energetics, mechanics of materials, processing, production systems, thermal science, and tribology.
Advisory Board/Series Editors Applied Mechanics
F.A. Leckie University of California, Santa Barbara D. Gross Technical University of Darmstadt
Biomechanics
V.C. Mow Columbia University
Computational Mechanics
H.T. Yang University of California, Santa Barbara D. Bryant University of Texas at Austin
Dynamic Systems and Control/Mechatronics Energetics
J.R.Welty University of Oregon, Eugene
Mechanics of Materials
I. Finnie University of California, Berkeley
Processing
K.K. Wang Cornell University
Production Systems
G.-A. Klutke Texas A&M University
Thermal Science
A.E. Bergles Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tribology
W.O. Winer Georgia Institute of Technology
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Lorenzo Morello • Lorenzo Rosti Rossini • Giuseppe Pia • Andrea Tonoli
The Automotive Body Volume II: System Design
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