Theory of Ground Vehicles, 3rd Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: J. Y. Wong
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 749926
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
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Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0471354619
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.23
EAN: 9780471354611
ASIN: 0471354619
Publication Date: March 6, 2001
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Product Description
An updated edition of the classic reference on the dynamics of road and off-road vehicles
As we enter a new millennium, the vehicle industry faces greater challenges than ever before as it strives to meet the increasing demand for safer, environmentally friendlier, more energy efficient, and lower emissions products. Theory of Ground Vehicles, Third Edition gives aspiring and practicing engineers a fundamental understanding of the critical factors affecting the performance, handling, and ride essential to the development and design of ground vehicles that meet these requirements.
As in previous editions, this book focuses on applying engineering principles to the analysis of vehicle behavior. A large number of practical examples and problems are included throughout to help readers bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Covering a wide range of topics concerning the dynamics of road and off-road vehicles, this Third Edition is filled with up-to-date information, including:
* The Magic Formula for characterizing pneumatic tire behavior from test data for vehicle handling simulations
* Computer-aided methods for performance and design evaluation of off-road vehicles, based on the author's own research
* Updated data on road vehicle transmissions and operating fuel economy
* Fundamentals of road vehicle stability control
* Optimization of the performance of four-wheel-drive off-road vehicles and experimental substantiation, based on the author's own investigations
* A new theory on skid-steering of tracked vehicles, developed by the author.
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 useful book April 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recommend every automotive engineer to use this book, It's a good reference.
 Handles both road vehicles and tracked vehicles July 24, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book covers dynamics of ground vehicles over hard surfaces and unprepared terrain - mechanics of vehicle-terrain interactions, terramechanics. Tracked vehicles such as a military tank or a bulldozer that is propelled by tracks instead of pneumatic tires are also covered in detail in this book. There is also attention to air-cushion vehicles (hovercrafts). However, the guided ground vehicles which are constrained to move along a fixed path, such as railway vehicles and tracked levitated vehicles are not covered in this book.
There is a very good chapter on the mechanics of pneumatic tires, which has both theoretical and practical information. Attention is also given to performance of tires on wet surfaces. This issue is frequently overlooked by the other vehicle dynamics books; however, the behavior of tires on wet surfaces is of considerable interest from a safety point of view, as many accidents occur on slippery roads. The tire is also analyzed as both spring and a damper. There are useful graphs and tables in this chapter, as well as throughout the whole book. The table of damping coefficient of tires shows that the damping coefficient of tire drops with increase of the inflation pressure.
Mechanics of vehicle-terrain interactions studies distribution of stresses in the terrain under vehicular loads, empirical methods for predicting off-road vehicle performance, a computer-aided method for evaluating the performance of vehicles with flexible tracks, and so on.
Performance characteristics are covered separately for road and off-road vehicles. For the road vehicles, the author analyzes equation of motion and maximum tractive effort, aerodynamic forces and moments, vehicle power plant and transmission characteristics, prediction of vehicle performance, operating fuel economy, engine and transmission matching and braking performance. For off-road vehicles, the author examines drawbar performance, fuel economy of cross-country operations, transport productivity and efficiency, mobility map and mobility profile, selection of vehicle configurations for off-road operations.
Handling characteristics of road vehicles and steering of tracked vehicles are also separately analyzed.
There is a very good chapter on vehicle ride characteristics and human response to vibration.
I also recommend "Race Car Vehicle Dynamics" by William F. Milliken and Douglas L. Milliken, which is also a good compromise between theoretical and practical information.
Excellent & Comprehensive July 25, 2001
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
It covers various types of ground vehicles and the authors has done a tremendus job to produce such a good book especially on engineering point of view. Well and easy understanding for Engineers with lots of mathematically formulaes and explainations.It worth to read over and over again. A book for reference if involving ground vehicle dynamic computations.
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