Performance Vehicle Dynamics
Engineering and Applications

Explains challenges, providing both mathematical and practical solutions for performance in vehicle dynamics

James Balkwill (Author)

9780128126936, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 23 August 2017

360 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.57 kg

Performance Vehicle Dynamics: Engineering and Applications offers an accessible treatment of the complex material needed to achieve level seven learning outcomes in the field. Users will gain a complete, structured understanding that enables the preparation of useful models for characterization and optimization of performance using the same Automotive or Motorsport industry techniques and approaches. As the approach to vehicle dynamics has changed over time, largely due to advances in computing power, the subject has, in practice, always been computer intensive, but this use has changed, with modeling of relatively complex vehicle dynamics topics now even possible on a PC.

1. Introduction and Background 2. Tyres 3. Weight transfer and wheel loads 4. Straight line acceleration 5. Cornering 6. Braking 7. Suspension Kinematics 8. Dynamic Modelling of Vehicle Suspension 9. Lap-time, Manoeuvre and Full-vehicle Simulation

Subject Areas: Automotive technology & trades [TRC]