Motor vehicle structures concepts and fundamentals

• Main Author: Brown, Jason C.
• Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
• Other Authors: Robertson, A. John, Serpento, Stan T
• Format: Electronic Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Boston Butterworth-Heinemann 2002
• Subjects: Μηχανολογία αυτοκινήτων; Automobiles > Bodies > Design and construction

Motor Vehicle Structures has been written as a unified textbook dealing with the structural mechanics of the mass produced integral passenger car body. It provides a clear and concise explanation of load paths in the vehicle body-in-white (BIW), based on engineering first principles. This is then us...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Terminology and overview of vehicle structure types / Simple structural surfaces (SSS) method / Standard sedan - baseline load paths / Alternative constructions, model variants, range integration / Planar structures / Case study - application of the SSS method to an existing vehicle structure / Vehicle structure preliminary design using the SSS method / Preliminary design and analysis of body sub-assemblies using the SSS method / Fundamentals and preliminary sizing of sections and joints /