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Vehicle Dynamics

ISBN: 978-1-118-97135-2

April 2015

368 pages

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Description
  • Comprehensively covers the fundamentals of vehicle dynamics with application to automotive mechatronics
  • Presents a number of different design, analysis and implementation considerations related to automobiles, including power requirements, converters, performance, fuel consumption and vehicle dynamic models
  • Covers the dynamics, modeling and control of not only the entire vehicle system, but also of key elements of the vehicle such as transmissions, and hybrid systems integration
  • Includes exercise problems and MATLAB® codes
  • Accompanied by a website hosting animations
About the Author
Martin Meywerk is a Professor and the Head of the Institute of Automotive and Powertrain Engineering at Helmut-Schmidt-University (University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg) in Germany. He teaches courses in vehicle dynamics, automotive mechatronics, computer aided engineering and optimization. His research focuses on dynamic behaviour of vehicles and tyres, driving simulators and CAE-methods in automotive engineering.

Previously he has worked on research projects with Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Bast and other companies. He is the course instructor for a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) in vehicle dynamics.