Vehicle Dynamics

Unit – 1 Concepts of Vehicle Dynamics

Syllabus

•Concepts of vehicle dynamics: Introduction

to Vehicle Dynamics, Fundamental approach
to modeling- lumped mass, Vehicle fixed
coordinate system, Motion variables, Earth
fixed coordinate system, Euler angles,
Forces. Dynamic Axle loads - Static loads on
level ground, Low speed acceleration, loads
on grades, Effects of weight distribution.
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• 1979 – French Military Engineer – Nicholas Joseph Cugnot (1725-
1804).
• Built a three-wheeled steam driven vehicle.
• For the purpose of pulling artillery pieces.
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• With a few years an improvement model was built.
• To cause the first automotive accident when it ran into a wall!
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• 1784 – Scottish engineer – James Watt (1736 – 1819).
• Steam powered vehicle .
• Proved unworkable.
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• 1802 – Richard Trevithick (1771 – 1833) Englishman.
• Steam Coach.
• Travelled from Cornwall to London.
• Met its demise by burning one night after Trevithick forgot to
extinguish the boiler fire.
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• Steam coach business thrived in England until about 1865 when
competition from railroads and strict anti-speed laws brought it to an
end.
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• 1886 – First automobile powered by gasoline engines
• Karl Benz (1844-1929) and Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) working
independently.
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• Over the next decade…
• Rene Panhard, Emile Levassor, Armand Peugeot, Frank and Charles
Duryea, Henry Ford and Ransom Olds.
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• 1908 – Automotive Industry – United States.
• Henry Ford – Model T.
• General Motors Corporation.
• Europe – Familiar Companies – Daimler, Opel, Benz and Peugeot –
Recognized as automotive manufacturers.
• 1909 – 600 makes of American cars.
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• 1900 – Invention and design that would yield faster, more
comfortable and more reliable vehicles.
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• Maurice Olley
• Frederick William Lanchester (1868 – 1946).
• 1931 – tire dynamometer.
• Rieckert and Schunk.
• Rocard.
• Segal.
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