Components design
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Bibliographic Information
Components design
(Mechanical engineering series, . The automotive body ; v. 1)
Springer, c2011
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"The Automotive Body" consists of two volumes.
The first volume produces the needful cultural background on the body; it describes 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 second volume addresses the body system engineer and has the objective to lead him to the specification definition used to finalize detail design and production by the car manufacturer or the supply chain. The processing of these specifications, made by mathematical models of different complexity, starts always from the presentations of the needs of the customer using the vehicle and from the large number of rules imposed by laws and customs.
The two volumes are completed by references, list of symbols adopted and subjects index.
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.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- About the authors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction to Volume I
- 2 Historical Evolution
- 2.1 Industrial organization
- 2.2 Non unitized bodies and chassis
- 2.3 Partially unitized bodies and chassis
- 2.4 Unitized bodies and chassis
- 2.5 Body shape evolution
- 2.6 Electric components
- 3 Graphic Representation Systems
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 CAS, computer aided styling
- 3.3 CAD, computer aided design
- 3.4 DMU, digital mock-up
- 4 Body Work
- 4.1 Body in White
- 4.2 Body Side
- 4.3 Fenders
- 4.4 Roof assembly
- 4.5 Front frame
- 4.6 Rear frame
- 4.7 Compartment floor
- 4.8 Closed bodies
- 4.9 Spider, Coupe and Cabrio
- 4.10 Commercial vehicles and trucks
- 5 Body Components
- 5.1 Outer body components
- 5.2 Weather strips
- 5.3 Glass and mirrors
- 5.4 Movable parts
- 5.5 Windshield wiper
- 5.6 Vehicle lighting and signalling
- 6 Body Interiors
- 6.1 Restraint systems - safety belts
- 6.2 Restraint system -- air-bag
- 6.3 Dashboard cockpit - dashboard - console
- 6.4 Interior trims
- 6.5 Seats
- 6.6 Air conditioning system
- References
- Index.
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