New Advances in Vehicular Technology and Automotive Engineering

404 Pages·2016·21.29 MB·English

by  Carmo J.P.

NEW ADVANCES   
IN
VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY

AND

AUTOMOTIVE
ENGINEERING
Edited by Joao Paulo Carmo  
and Joao Eduardo Ribeiro
NEW ADVANCES IN 
VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY 
AND AUTOMOTIVE 
ENGINEERING 

Edited by Joao Paulo Carmo  
and Joao Eduardo Ribeiro
New Advances in Vehicular Technology and Automotive Engineering
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2617
Edited by Joao Paulo Carmo and Joao Eduardo Ribeiro

Contributors
Mohsen Mohseni, Bahram Ramezanzadeh, Hossein Yari, Mohsen Moazzami Gudarzi, Horst
Hintze-Bruening, Fabrice Leroux, Evripidis Lois, Panagiotis Arkoudeas, Amaya Igartua, Xana
Fdez-Pérez, Iñaki Illarramendi, Rolf Luther, Jürgen Rausch, Mathias Woydt, Vítor Monteiro,
Henrique Gonçalves, João C. Ferreira, João L. Afonso, Ruben Ivankovic, Jérôme Cros, Mehdi
Taghizadeh Kakhki, Carlos A. Martins, Philippe Viarouge, Niels Koch, Preeti Bajaj, Milind
Khanapurkar, Amedeo Troiano, Eros Pasero, Luca Mesin, J. P. Carmo, J. E. Ribeiro, Hernani
Lopes, João Ribeiro, Arjun Yogeswaran, Pierre Payeur, Darrell Robinette, Carl Anderson, Jason
Blough, Takama Suzuki, Masaki Takahashi, Mário Sacomano Neto, Sílvio R. I. Pires

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New Advances in Vehicular Technology and Automotive Engineering, Edited by Joao
Paulo Carmo and Joao Eduardo Ribeiro
p. cm.
ISBN 978-953-51-0698-2

Contents

Preface IX
Section 1 Materials 1
Chapter 1 The Role of Nanotechnology in Automotive Industries 3
Mohsen Mohseni, Bahram Ramezanzadeh,
Hossein Yari and Mohsen Moazzami Gudarzi
Chapter 2 Nanocomposite Based Multifunctional Coatings 55
Horst Hintze-Bruening and Fabrice Leroux
Chapter 3 Lubricating Aspects of Automotive Fuels 91
Evripidis Lois and Panagiotis Arkoudeas
Chapter 4 Biolubricants and Triboreactive
Materials for Automotive Applications 119
Amaya Igartua, Xana Fdez-Pérez, Iñaki Illarramendi,
Rolf Luther, Jürgen Rausch and Mathias Woydt
Section 2 Electronics 147
Chapter 5 Batteries Charging Systems for Electric
and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles 149
Vítor Monteiro, Henrique Gonçalves,
João C. Ferreira and João L. Afonso
Chapter 6 Power Electronic Solutions to Improve the
Performance of Lundell Automotive Alternators 169
Ruben Ivankovic, Jérôme Cros, Mehdi Taghizadeh Kakhki,
Carlos A. Martins and Philippe Viarouge
Chapter 7 Antennas for Automobiles 191
Niels Koch
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Chapter 8 Automotive Networks Based
Intra-Vehicular Communication Applications 207
Preeti Bajaj and Milind Khanapurkar
Chapter 9 A Road Ice Sensor 231
Amedeo Troiano, Eros Pasero and Luca Mesin
Chapter 10 Optical Techniques for Defect Evaluation in Vehicles 255
J. P. Carmo and J. E. Ribeiro
Section 3 Mechanics 283
Chapter 11 Structural Health Monitoring in
Composite Automotive Elements 285
Hernani Lopes and João Ribeiro
Chapter 12 3D Surface Analysis for Automated Detection
of Deformations on Automotive Body Panels 303
Arjun Yogeswaran and Pierre Payeur
Chapter 13 Development of a Dimensionless Model for Predicting
the Onset of Cavitation in Torque Converters 333
Darrell Robinette, Carl Anderson and Jason Blough
Chapter 14 Semi-Active Suspension Control Considering
Lateral Vehicle Dynamics Due to Road Input 359
Takama Suzuki and Masaki Takahashi
Section 4 Manufacturing 377
Chapter 15 Performance Measurement in Supply
Chains: A Study in the Automotive Industry 379
Mário Sacomano Neto and Sílvio R. I. Pires

Preface

An automobile was seen as a simple accessory of luxury in the early years of the past
century. Therefore, it was an expensive asset which none of the common citizen could
afford. It was necessary to pass a long period and waiting for Henry Ford to establish
the first plants with the series fabrication. This new industrial paradigm makes easy to
the common American to acquire an automobile, either for running away or for
working purposes. Since that date, the automotive research grown exponentially to the
levels observed in the actuality. Now, the automobiles are indispensable goods; saying
with other words, the automobile is a first necessity article in a wide number of
aspects of living: for workers to allow them to move from their homes into their
workplaces, for transportation of students, for allowing the domestic women in their
home tasks, for ambulances to carry people with decease to the hospitals, for
transportation of materials, and so on, the list don’t ends. The new goal pursued by the
automotive industry is to provide electric vehicles at low cost and with high reliability.
This commitment is justified by the oil’s peak extraction on 50s of this century and also
by the necessity to reduce the emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere, as well as to reduce
the needs of this even more valuable natural resource. In order to achieve this task and
to improve the regular cars based on oil, the automotive industry is even more
concerned on doing applied research on technology and on fundamental research of
new materials. The most important idea to retain from the previous introduction is to
clarify the minds of the potential readers for the direct and indirect penetration of the
vehicles and the vehicular industry in the today’s life. In this sequence of ideas, this
book tries not only to fill a gap by presenting fresh subjects related to the vehicular
technology and to the automotive engineering but to provide guidelines for future
research.
This book account with valuable contributions from worldwide experts of
automotive’s field. The amount and type of contributions were judiciously selected to
cover a broad range of research. The reader can found the most recent and
cutting-edge sources of information divided in four major groups: electronics (power,
communications, optics, batteries, alternators and sensors), mechanics (suspension
control, torque converters, deformation analysis, structural monitoring), materials
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(nanotechnology, nanocomposites, lubrificants, biodegradable, composites, structural
monitoring) and manufacturing (supply chains).
We are sure that you will enjoy this book and will profit with the technical and
scientific contents. To finish, we are thankful to all of those who contributed to this
book and who made it possible.

João Paulo Carmo
University of Minho
Portugal

João Eduardo Ribeiro
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Portugal