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Motor vehicle structures : concepts and fundamentals /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Jason C.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Robertson, A. John, Serpento, Stan T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002.
Subjects:
Motor vehicles > Bodies > Design and construction.
Automobiles > Bodies > Design and construction.
Motor vehicles > Bodies > Testing.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
Automobiles > Bodies > Design and construction
Motor vehicles > Bodies > Design and construction
Karosserie
Kraftfahrzeugtechnik
Personenkraftwagen
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.