''This book presents a comprehensive analytical treatment of driveline research, design, and tests based on energyefficiency, vehicle dynamics, and operational properties requirements.'' ''Structured to be useful to engineers of all levels of experience, university professors and graduate students, the book is based on the R & D projects conducted by the authors. It explores intriguing engineering dilemmas such as how to achieve higher energy and fuel efficiency by driving either all the wheels or not all the wheels, solve oversteering issues by managing wheel power distribution, and many other technical problems.''BOOK JACKET. Read more...
Content: Driveline Systems and Vehicle Performance Brief Review of Driveline Systems History Classification of Driveline Systems and Power Dividing Units Wheel Dynamics and Energy Efficiency Vehicle Energy=Fuel Efficiency and Driveline Systems Design Vehicle Performance and Driveline Systems Design Principles of Driveline System Design Interwheel and Interaxle Open and Lockable Differentials Kinematics and Dynamics of Differentials: The Gear-Ratio Concept Kinematics of a Vehicle with an Interaxle Differential Tooth Forces in Bevel-Gear Differentials Robustness of Differentials Design of Axle=Interwheel Differentials Design of Interaxle Differentials and Transfer Cases Designing Locking Devices Wheel Power Distribution and Vehicle Performance Optimal and Reasonable Differential Gear Ratios: Control Principles Automatic and Manual Positively Engaged Power-Dividing Units Designs of Power-Dividing Units Kinematic Discrepancy and Generalized Vehicle Parameters Wheel Slips and Circumferential Wheel Forces Wheel Power Distributions and Vehicle Energy=Fuel Efficiency Wheel Power Distribution and Vehicle Performance Optimal and Reasonable Kinematic Discrepancy: Control Principles Limited Slip Differentials Torque Biasing and Locking Performance Disk Differentials without Additional Lockers Disk Differentials with Cam Lockers Disk Differentials with V-Lockers Worm-Gear Differentials Cam-Plunger Differentials Torque Sensitive Differentials Speed Sensitive Differentials Force Fluctuations in Disk Differentials Tractive Performance and Yaw Moment of a Drive Axle Asymmetrical Interaxle Differentials Free-Running Differentials and Viscous Clutches Design and Operating Principles of Free-Running Differentials Applications of Free-Running Differentials Viscous Clutches: Operation and Design Aspects Combined Automated Mechanical Driveline Systems Vehicle Operational Properties A Method of Synthesizing Driveline Systems with Optimal Properties Objective Function Analysis Synthesis of the Properties of Interwheel Power-Dividing Units Synthesis of Properties of Interaxle Power-Dividing Units Synthesis of Properties of Interwheel and Interaxle Power-Dividing Units Mechatronic Driveline Systems Simple, Combined, and Integrated Driveline Systems-A Brief Overview Inverse Wheel Dynamics and Control Proactive Assessment of Terrain Conditions Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanical Subsystems Design of Simple and Combined Driveline Systems Design of Integrated Driveline Systems Hybrid Driveline Systems Testing of Driveline Systems and Multiwheel Drive Vehicles Laboratory Studies of the Locking Performance of Differentials Laboratory Testing of Friction Clutches of Differentials Laboratory Tests of Differential Lubrication Systems Field and Road Tests of Wheeled Vehicles
Abstract:
Presents analytical and experimental methods and achievements in the design of mechanical and mechatronic driveline systems, including various power dividing units, such as symmetric and non-symmetric, open and lockable differentials, various limited slip differentials, and no-spins and viscous clutches. Read more...
