Dynamics of Ground Vehicles detailed syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AUTO) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the AUTO students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Automobile Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit AUTO 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to AUTO Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of dynamics of ground vehicles is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
CONCEPT OF VIBRATION 9 Definitions, Modeling and Simulation, Global and Vehicle Coordinate System, Free, Forced, Undamped and Damped Vibration, Response Analysis of Single DOF, Two DOF, Multi DOF, Magnification factor, Transmissibility ratio, Base excitation. Vibration absorber, Vibration measuring instruments, Torsional vibration, Critical speed
Unit II
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Unit III
VERTICAL DYNAMICS 9 Human response to vibration, Sources of Vibration. Suspension requirements – types. State Space Representation. Design and analysis of Passive, Semi active and Active suspension using Quarter car, Bicycle Model, half car and full car vibrating model. Influence of suspension stiffness, suspension damping, and tire stiffness. Control law. Suspension optimization techniques. Air suspension system and their properties.
Unit IV
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Unit V
LATERAL DYNAMICS 9 Steady state handling characteristics. Steady state response to steering input – Yaw velocity gain, Lateral acceleration gain, curvature response gain. Testing of handling characteristics. Transient response characteristics. Steering dynamics. Direction control of vehicles. Roll center, Roll axis. Stability of vehicle on banked road, during turn. Effect of suspension on cornering. Minuro Plot for Lateral Transient Response.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- J. Y. Wong, “Theory of Ground Vehicles”, Fourth Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2008
- Singiresu S. Rao, “Mechanical Vibrations,” Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2010
- Thomas D. Gillespie, “Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics,” Society of Automotive Engineers Inc, 2014
Reference Books:
- Dean Karnopp, “Vehicle Dynamics, Stability, and Control”, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2013
- Hans B Pacejka, “Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics,” Second edition, SAE International, 2005
- John C. Dixon, “Tyres, Suspension, and Handling, ” Second Edition, Society of Automotive Engineers Inc, 1996
- Michael Blundell & Damian Harty, “The Multibody Systems Approach to Vehicle Dynamics”,Elsevier Limited, 2004
- R. Nakhaie Jazar, “Vehicle Dynamics: Theory and Application”, Second edition, Springer, 2013
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Automobile Engineering 6th Sem, visit AUTO 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Automobile Engineering results, visit Anna University AUTO all semester results direct link.