Motor Vehicle Structures: Concepts and Fundamentals
The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate that the application of a simplified approach can benefit the development of modern passenger car structure design, especially during the conceptual stage. The foundations of the simplified approach are
the principles of statics and strength-of-materials that are the core of basic engineering fundamentals. The simple structural surface method (SSS), which originated from the work of Dr Janusz Pawlowski, is offered as a means of organizing the process for ratio-nalizing the basic vehicle body structure load paths.
Students will find the approach to be a structured application of the basic engineering fundamental building blocks that are part of their early curricula. Practising engineers may find that a refresher course instatics and strength-of-materials would be helpful.
It is hoped that the practice of the simplified approach presented will result in more robust conceptual design alternatives and a better fundamental understanding of structural behaviour that can guide further development.
The category of light vehicle structures described in this book encompasses the many types of passenger car, light trucks and vans. These vehicles are designed and produced with methods and technologies that have evolved over approximately 100 years. In this time the technologies used have become more numerous and also more complex.
As a result more staff with a wide range of expertise have been employed in the process of designing and producing these vehicles. The result of this diversification of design methods and production technologies is that an individual engineer rarely has the need to look at the overall design. This book attempts to look at the overall structural design starting at the initial concept of the vehicle.
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