Motor Vehicle Dynamics

Download or read book Motor Vehicle Dynamics written by Giancarlo Genta and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book starts with an historical overview of road vehicles. The first part deals with the forces exchanged between the vehicle and the road and the vehicle and the air with the aim of supplying the physical facts and the relevant mathematical models about the forces which dominate the dynamics of the vehicle.The second part deals with the dynamic behaviour of the vehicle in normal driving conditions with some extensions towards conditions encountered in high-speed racing driving.