Vehicle Health Monitoring, Maintenance and Safety detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering Sandwich (Mech Sandwich) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Mech Sandwich 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 Mechanical Engineering Sandwich 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Mech Sandwich 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to Mech Sandwich Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of vehicle health monitoring, maintenance and safety is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9
Need for Maintenance – importance, classification of maintenance work-basic problem diagnosis. Maintenance of vehicle systems – power pack, tyres, safety systems. Scheduled maintenance services -service intervals – On-board diagnostics, Computerized engine analyzer study and practice- OBD and scan tools;
Unit II
POWERTRAIN MAINTENANCE 9
Exhaust emission test of petrol and diesel engine; – Electronic fuel injection and engine management service – fault diagnosis- OBD-III and scan tool, identifying DTC and servicing emission controls, Maintenance of Batteries, Starting System, Charging System and Body Electrical -Fault Diagnosis Using Scan Tools.
Unit III
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Unit IV
VEHICLE SAFETY 9
Concepts of vehicle safety -Seat belt, regulations, automatic seat belt tightener system, collapsible steering column, air bags, electronic system for activating air bags, bumper design for safety, Active Safety – ABS, EBD, CSC, Traction control system, Modern electronic features in vehicles like tyre pressure monitoring, Automatic headlamp ON, Rain sensing wipers.
Unit V
SIMULATION OF SAFETY CONCEPTS 9
Active safety: driving safety, conditional safety, perceptibility safety, operating safety passive safety: exterior safety, interior safety, deformation behavior of vehicle body, speed and acceleration characteristics of passenger compartment on impact. Collision warning system, causes of rear end collision, frontal object detection, rear vehicle object detection system, object detection system with braking system Interactions.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students would be able to
- The students have the knowledge of vehicle health monitoring, maintenance and safety.
- The students able to maintenance of powertrain.
- The students can ability to maintenance of Vehicle system.
- Explain and awareness of vehicle safety.
- Explain the simulation of safety concepts.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Ed May, “Automotive Mechanics Volume One” and Two, Mc Graw Hill Publications, Tenth edition, 2018
- Bosch Automotive Handbook, Tenth Edition, 2018
- Jack Erjavek, “A systems approach to Automotive Technology”, Cengage Learning, 5th Edition, 2012
- William H. Crouse and Donald L. Anglin, “Automotive Mechanics”, Tata McGraw Hill, 10thEdition, 2004.
- Vehicle Service Manuals of Reputed Indian Manufacturers.
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