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  title info:
    title: Optimal Design of Complex Mechanical Systems
    sub title: With Applications to Vehicle Engineering
  name:
    name part: Mastinu, Giampiero.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Gobbi, Massimiliano.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Miano, Carlo.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XLIV, 359 p. online resource.
  abstract: The book is devoted both to researchers wishing to acquire a basic knowledge on the optimization of complex mechanical systems and to engineers specialist in the field of vehicle design. In the introductory chapter, the main optimization problems issues are briefly presented without resorting to involved mathematics. Therefore the reader is aware of what is actually the optimization of complex systems and the actual problem solving capabilities available. All of these topics are dealt with in a complete mathematical form in the second part of the book. In the third part of the book, a number of relevant optimization problems referring to ground vehicles are solved, whenever possible, in analytical form. The best compromise between handling, road holding and comfort of road vehicles is studied using validated full non linear models. The optimal design of railway vehicles is dealt with. Additionally the design of springs and other vehicle sub-systems are reinterpreted making use of the presented optimization theories and may bring new ideas for future applications. Though the optimization of complex mechanical systems will be continuously updated in the near future, the book will remain informative both with reference to theory presented, and with reference to those optimization examples which pertain to engineering science. Giampiero Mastinu, Ph.D., professor of Vehicle System Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Technical University), Italy Massimiliano Gobbi, Ph.D., professor of Optimal Design at the Politecnico di Milano (Technical University), Italy Carlo Miano, Ph.D., research engineer at the Ferrari Formula 1 Team, Maranello (Modena) Italy.
  table of contents: Theory -- to the Optimal Design of Complex Mechanical Systems -- Engineering Design and Optimal Design of Complex Mechanical Systems: Definitions -- Multi-objective Optimisation -- Global Approximation -- Applications -- Optimal Ride Comfort and Active Safety of Road Vehicles -- Optimal Handling and Active Safety of Road Vehicles -- Optimal Design of the Tyre-Suspension System of a Racing Car -- Integrated Controls for the Improvement of Ride, Comfort, Handling and Active Safety of Road Vehicles -- Optimal Design of a Double-Cone Synchroniser -- Optimal Design of the Suspension System of Railway Vehicles -- Optimal Design of the Layout of Railway Passenger Vehicles -- Optimal Design of Helical Spring -- Interactive Optimisation of a Flywheel.
  note: by Giampiero Mastinu, Massimiliano Gobbi, Carlo Miano.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Engineering design
  subject:
    topic: Automotive engineering
  subject:
    topic: Industrial engineering
  subject:
    topic: Production engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Design
  subject:
    topic: Industrial and Production Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Automotive Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Innovation/Technology Management
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  classification: TA174
  classification: 620.0042
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540343554
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34355-4
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204152727.0
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