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The Fundamental and Conceptual Design of Passenger Car Structures
The Fundamental and Conceptual Design of Passenger Car Structures Author:Jason Brown, A J Robertson, Stan Serpento Part of the Automotive Engineering Series, this book is 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) which are based on engineering first principles. This is then used as the basis... more » for an in-depth discussion of the conceptual design of car structures, using case studies directly related to real world design problems.
The book is based on a short course designed for industry which has been well received and is used to train General Motor's body engineers worldwide. The authors have extensive experience of analysis and design of vehicle structures in the automobile industry and of teaching the subject both in-company and academia.« less