Technology & Engineering
Automobile Engineering
Automobile engineering is a branch of mechanical engineering that deals with the design, development, manufacturing, and maintenance of automobiles. It involves the study of various aspects such as engines, transmissions, suspension systems, and electrical systems. The goal of automobile engineering is to create safe, efficient, and reliable vehicles.
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eBook - PDFVehicle Technology
Technical foundations of current and future motor vehicles
- Dieter Schramm, Benjamin Hesse, Niko Maas, Michael Unterreiner(Authors)
- 2020(Publication Date)
- De Gruyter Oldenbourg(Publisher)
1 Introduction and overview In the 125 years of its history, automobile technology has become extremely com-plex in many areas. This includes the development and production of technology as well as methods of quality assurance. It has become an exemplary field of expertise, not only limited to pure engineering sciences. This development has significantly contributed to the fact that vehicle technology poses highly functional reliability and safety requirements on its products. In that sense, motor vehicles must remain operational under harsh environmental conditions. In addition, in case of fault, ve-hicles must be able to be brought back in a safe state by inexperienced operators. In addition, the car is made in mass production to produce quantities of millions of units at extremely low cost. Decades of improvement processes, as triggered by these requirements, have re-sulted in an extremely mature product group. As such, it is considered the model for many other products in terms of cost, function, and quality. Nevertheless, there are fields that are currently undergoing major changes in the area of vehicle technology. This applies, on the one hand, to the field of vehicle drive. The combustion engine, which is used for over 120 years, is though not nearly completely replaced in short and medium terms, but at least supplemented by electric and semielectric drives. The technical reasoning behind this is part of a detailed discussion in Chapter 6. On the other hand, there is a continuing development, driven by processes in electronics and sensor technology since the past decades: connected cars and the development of (advanced) driver assistance systems, which include purely supportive systems, further to systems that allow highly automated and, in the long term, fully automated driving. This topic is covered in Chapter 9. In addition to these specialized topics, the book also introduces the basic topics within current vehicle technology.
eBook - ePubSystemic Innovation
Entrepreneurial Strategies and Market Dynamics
- Dimitri Uzunidis(Author)
- 2020(Publication Date)
- Wiley-ISTE(Publisher)
The field of road transport, which can be assimilated to the automobile since it is entirely operated by motor vehicles (light vehicles, heavy goods vehicles and buses), which we will call the automotive system, will be used as an illustration of technological change under environmental constraints. The central component of this automotive system is its almost exclusively thermal motor component: conventional internal combustion engines or diesel engines. The automotive system is one of the major technical systems, reaching a critical limit of effects on the environment due mainly to the emissions of its engine. This limit is manifested by the excessive production of greenhouse gases, as well as of toxic gases such as nitrogen oxide and fine and hyperfine particle emissions, all of which are quite massive in an urban environment and have local effects that are perceptible because they are directly aggressive, inconvenient and damaging to humans.The automotive system clearly demonstrates the environmental limitation to the development of our technological system, and no doubt to the kind of life that accompanies and underpins it. It is very quickly threatened by a general and rapid questioning of its technologies.This limit leads in the short term to a form of purely technological response focused on engines: the elimination of internal combustion engines, led by public authorities, and their general replacement by propulsion technologies generally based on electricity.However, we will show that this first response is not in line with the scale of the problem and generates a new technological route generating a diversification of automotive technical systems and the complete reshaping of the current transport system.The technological change of the automotive system thus provides general lessons on the trends of this new form of technological change, induced by the environmental limit and its specific dynamics. These will be presented here as new characteristics of technological change under environmental constraint.7.2. Encountering a major technological limit: the environmental limitation
- Marcello Chiaberge(Author)
- 2011(Publication Date)
- IntechOpen(Publisher)
12 González, J., Wagenaar, R. (2003). Tuning Educational Structures in Europe . Universidad de Deusto,. New Trends and Developments in Automotive System Engineering 664 Sánchez, F.J., Aparicio, F., Álvarez, M.A. and Jiménez, F. (2009). SAE Formula Project for Developing Personal and Professional Skills in Automotive Engineers , Int. J. Engineering Education. Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 585-594. http://students.sae.org/competitions/bajasae/ http://students.sae.org/competitions/formulaseries/ http://students.sae.org/competitions/supermileage/ http://www.globalgreenchallenge.com.au/ http://www.kartlowcost.com/Presentation.html http://www.shell.com/home/content/ecomarathon/ Edited by Marcello Chiaberge Photo by VanderWolf / iStock In the last few years the automobile design process is required to become more responsible and responsibly related to environmental needs. Basing the automotive design not only on the appearance, the visual appearance of the vehicle needs to be thought together and deeply integrated with the “power” developed by the engine. The purpose of this book is to try to present the new technologies development scenario, and not to give any indication about the direction that should be given to the research in this complex and multi-disciplinary challenging field. ISBN 978-953-307-517-4 ISBN 978-953-51-4536-3
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