Vehicle Body Engineering and Safety detailed Syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AUTO), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU AUTO 8th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU AUTO 8th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for vehicle body engineering and safety is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Classification of Coachwork: Styling forms, coach and bus body style, layout of cars, buses and coach with different seating and loading capacity, types of commercial vehicles, vans and pickups, etc. Terms used in body building construction, angle of approach, Angle of departure, ground clearance, Cross bearers, floor longitudes, posts, seat rail, waist rail, cant rail, Roof stick, Roof longitude, Rub rail, skirt rail, truss panel, wheel arch structure, wheel arch, post diagonals, gussets.
Module 2
Vehicle Body Materials: Aluminium alloys, Steel, alloy steels, plastics, Metal matrix composites, structural timbers-properties, glass reinforced plastics and high strength composites, thermoplastics, ABS and styrenes, load bearing plastics, semi rigid PUR foams and sandwich panel construction. Paints adhesives and their properties, corrosion and their prevention.
Module 3
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Module 4
Interior Ergonomics: Introduction, Seating dimensions, Interior ergonomics, ergonomics system design, seat comfort, suspension seats, split frame seating, back passion reducers, dash board instruments, electronic displays, commercial vehicle cabin ergonomics, mechanical package layout, goods vehicle layout. Visibility, regulations, drivers visibility, methods of improving visibility, Window winding and seat adjustment mechanisms. Vehicle Stability: Introduction, Longitudinal, lateral stability, vehicle on a curvilinear path, critical speed for toppling and skidding. Effect of operating factors on lateral stability, steering geometry and stabilization of steerable wheels, mass distribution and engine location on stability.
Module 5
Noise and Vibration: Noise characteristics, Sources of noise, noise level measurement techniques, Body structural vibrations, chassis bearing vibration, designing against fatigue, methods of noise suppression. Impact protection: Basics, physics of impact between deformable bodies, design for crash worthiness, occupant and cargo restraint, passive restraint systems, side impact analysis, bumper system, energy absorbent foams, laws of mechanisms applied to safety.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
Text Books:
- Vehicle body engineering Giles J Pawlowsky Business books limited 1989
- Vehicle body layout and analysis John Fenton Mechanical Engg. Publication ltd, London. 1990
Reference Books:
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For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE 8th Sem Automobile Engineering, visit (AUTO) 8th Sem Syllabus Subjects.
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