Lecture Notes
Dear Students the Lecture Notes has been uploaded for the following topics:</br>Assumptions to be made in designing a vehicle, </br>Gross Vehicle Weight, Frontal Area, maximum speed, </br>Problems related to Gross Vehicle Weight, Frontal Area, maximum speed, maximum acceleration, Gradability in different gears , </br>Calculation, Tabulation and Plotting of Curves for Air and Rolling Resistances at various vehicle speeds , </br>Calculation and Plotting of Driving force , </br>Power requirement for different loads and acceleration, Maximum Power calculation. , </br>Problems related to Power requirement for different loads and acceleration , </br>Tire forces and moments, Tire structure, </br>Longitudinal and Lateral force at various slip angles, rolling resistance, Tractive., </br>Cornering property of tire. , </br>Performance of tire on wet surface, </br>Ride property of tires, </br>Magic formulae tire model, </br>Estimation of tire road friction, </br>Test on Various road surface, </br>Tire vibration., </br>Human response to vibration , </br>Sources of Vibration , </br>Influence of suspension stiffness, suspension damping, and tire stiffness, </br>Skyhook damping, </br>Air suspension system and their properties, </br>Aerodynamic forces and moments, </br>Load Distribution for three wheeler , </br>Load Distribution for four wheeler , </br>Calculation of Maximum acceleration, Reaction forces for Front Wheel drives, </br>Calculation of Maximum acceleration, Reaction forces for Rear Wheel drives, </br>Calculation of Maximum acceleration, Reaction forces for Four Wheel drives, </br>Braking and Driving torque, </br>Prediction of Vehicle performance, </br>ABS, stability control, and Traction control., </br>Steady state handling characteristics , </br>Steady state response to steering input , </br>Testing of handling characteristics , </br>Transient response characteristics , </br>Direction control of vehicles, </br>Stability of vehicle on banked road , </br>Effect of suspension on cornering.
