Automotive Body Engineering detailed syllabus scheme for B.Tech Automobile Engineering (AE), 2018-19 onwards has been taken from the DBATU official website and presented for the Bachelor of Technology students. For Subject Code, Course Title, Lecutres, Tutorials, Practice, Credits, and other information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For all other DBATU Syllabus for Automobile Engineering 6th Sem 2018-19, do visit AE 6th Sem 2018-19 Onwards Scheme. The detailed syllabus scheme for automotive body engineering is as follows.
Automotive Body Engineering Syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AE) 3rd Year 6th Sem 2018-19 DBATU
Pre-requisite:
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Course outcomes:
At the end of the course, students will be able to
- Apply various concepts of vehicle aerodynamics while designing a car body.
- Identify and draw various types of body designs.
- Apply various concepts of aesthetics and ergonomic while designing a vehicle body.
- Apply design concepts while designing driver and passenger seating arrangement
Course Contents:
Unit I
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Unit II
Vehicle Aerodynamics
Objectives, vehicle drag and types; various types of forces and moments, effects of forces and moments, side wind effects on forces and moments, Various body optimization techniques for minimum drag, wind tunnel testing: flow visualization techniques, scale model testing.
Unit III
Body Details
Types of bus bodies, classification, Bus body layout; floor height, engine location, entrance and exit location, seating dimensions. Constructional details: frame construction, double skin construction, types of metal sections used, Regulations, Conventional and integral type construction, Design of riveted joints.
Unit IV
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Unit V
Body Materials, Trim and Mechanisms
Various body materials: Steel sheet, timber, plastic, BIW, Advanced body materials: GRP, Carbon fiber, fiberglass, Shape-Memory Polymers (SMPs), technologies to reduce the noise vibration and harshness (NVH) properties of materials; corrosion and anticorrosion methods. Selection of paint and painting process, Body trim and Body mechanisms. Repair of vehicle body: hand and power tools, major and minor accident damage, damage assessment,
Unit VI
Body Loads
Different loading situations, chassis frame design, idealized structure, structural surface, shear panel method, symmetric and asymmetrical, vertical loads in car, longitudinal load.
Text Books:
- Powloski.J., Vehicle Body Engineering, Business Books Ltd., Reference Books:
- Giles J. C., Body construction and design, lliffe Books Butterworth and Co., 1971.
- John Fenton, Vehicle Body layout and analysis, Mechanical Engg Publication Ltd., London, 1982.
- Wolf Heinrich Hucho, Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles, SAE International, USA
- Lorenzo Morello, Lorenzo Rosti, Rossini, Giuseppe Pia, Andrea Tonoli, The Automotive Body component design, Volume I and Volume II, Springer ISBN 97894-007-0512-5.
- W.A. Livesay, A. Robinson, The repair of vehicle body, 5th edition, Elsevier.
For detail syllabus of all other subjects of Automobile Engineering (AE) 6th Sem 2018-19 regulation, visit AE 6th Sem Subjects syllabus for 2018-19 regulation.