| Symbols List | p. xi |
| Functions And Specifications | p. 1 |
| Introduction to Part III | p. 3 |
| Transportation Statistics | p. 7 |
| Traffic volume | p. 9 |
| Operating fleet | p. 17 |
| Social impact | p. 23 |
| Vehicle Functions | p. 33 |
| System design | p. 33 |
| Objective requirements | p. 42 |
| Subjective requirements | p. 54 |
| Aging resistance | p. 62 |
| Regulations | p. 71 |
| Vehicle system | p. 73 |
| Wheels | p. 82 |
| Steering system | p. 86 |
| Braking system | p. 89 |
| Structures | p. 96 |
| Gearbox | p. 98 |
| The Chassis as a Part of the Vehicle System | p. 101 |
| Introduction to Part IV | p. 103 |
| General Characteristics | p. 105 |
| Symmetry considerations | p. 105 |
| Reference frames | p. 106 |
| Position of the center of mass | p. 108 |
| Mass distribution among the various bodies | p. 110 |
| Moments of inertia | p. 111 |
| An Overview on Motor Vehicle Aerodynamics | p. 115 |
| Aerodynamic forces and moments | p. 117 |
| Aerodynamic field around a vehicle | p. 126 |
| Aerodynamic drag | p. 134 |
| Lift and pitching moment | p. 148 |
| Side force and roll and yaw moments | p. 152 |
| Experimental study of aerodynamic forces | p. 154 |
| Numerical aerodynamics | p. 161 |
| Prime Movers for Motor Vehicles | p. 165 |
| Vehicular engines | p. 167 |
| Internal combustion engines | p. 169 |
| Electric vehicles | p. 174 |
| Hybrid vehicles | p. 178 |
| Driving Dynamic Performance | p. 185 |
| Load distribution on the ground | p. 185 |
| Total resistance to motion | p. 193 |
| Power needed for motion | p. 195 |
| Available power at the wheels | p. 198 |
| Maximum power that can be transferred to the road | p. 199 |
| Maximum speed | p. 206 |
| Gradeability and initial choice of the transmission ratios | p. 208 |
| Fuel consumption at constant speed | p. 210 |
| Vehicle take-off from rest | p. 215 |
| Acceleration | p. 220 |
| Fuel consumption in actual driving conditions | p. 226 |
| Braking Dynamic Performance | p. 231 |
| Braking in ideal conditions | p. 231 |
| Braking in actual conditions | p. 236 |
| Braking power | p. 242 |
| Handling Performance | p. 247 |
| Low speed or kinematic steering | p. 247 |
| Ideal steering | p. 255 |
| High speed cornering: simplified approach | p. 265 |
| Definition of understeer and oversteer | p. 268 |
| High speed cornering | p. 271 |
| Steady-state lateral behavior | p. 285 |
| Neutral point and static margin | p. 288 |
| Response to external forces and moments | p. 290 |
| Slip steering | p. 293 |
| Influence of longitudinal forces on handling | p. 294 |
| Transversal load shift | p. 297 |
| Toe in | p. 299 |
| Effect of the elasto-kinematic behavior of suspensions and of the compliance of the chassis | p. 300 |
| Stability of the vehicle | p. 301 |
| Unstationary motion | p. 312 |
| Vehicles with two steering axles (4WS) | p. 319 |
| Model with 4 degrees of freedom for articulated vehicles | p. 322 |
| Multibody articulated vehicles | p. 341 |
| Limits of linearized models | p. 347 |
| Comfort Performance | p. 349 |
| Internal excitation | p. 350 |
| Road excitation | p. 354 |
| Effects of vibration on the human body | p. 357 |
| Quarter-car models | p. 359 |
| Heave and pitch motion | p. 394 |
| Roll motion | p. 413 |
| Effect of nonlinearities | p. 417 |
| Concluding remarks on ride comfort | p. 426 |
| Control of the Chassis and 'By Wire' Systems | p. 429 |
| Motor vehicle control | p. 429 |
| Models for the vehicle-driver system | p. 435 |
| Antilock (ABS) and antispin (ASR) systems | p. 450 |
| Handling control | p. 457 |
| Suspensions control | p. 468 |
| By wire systems | p. 491 |
| Mathematical Modelling | p. 497 |
| Introduction to Part V | p. 499 |
| Mathematical Models for the Vehicle | p. 503 |
| Mathematical models for design | p. 504 |
| Continuous and discretized models | p. 507 |
| Analytical and numerical models | p. 509 |
| Multibody Modelling | p. 511 |
| Isolated vehicle | p. 513 |
| Linearized model for the isolated vehicle | p. 515 |
| Model with 10 degrees of freedom with locked controls | p. 541 |
| Models of deformable vehicles | p. 565 |
| Articulated vehicles | p. 572 |
| Gyroscopic moments and other second order effects | p. 573 |
| Transmission Models | p. 577 |
| Coupling between comfort and driveline vibration | p. 578 |
| Dynamic model of the engine | p. 580 |
| Driveline | p. 596 |
| Inertia of the vehicle | p. 599 |
| Linearized driveline model | p. 601 |
| Non-time-invariant models | p. 606 |
| Multibody driveline models | p. 614 |
| Models for Tilting Body Vehicles | p. 617 |
| Suspensions for high roll angles | p. 619 |
| Linearized rigid body model | p. 630 |
| Dynamic tilting control | p. 649 |
| Handling-comfort coupling | p. 652 |
| Equations of Motion in the State and Configuration Spaces | p. 665 |
| Equations of motion of discrete linear systems | p. 665 |
| Stability of linear dynamic systems | p. 670 |
| Closed form solution of the forced response | p. 679 |
| Nonlinear dynamic systems | p. 679 |
| Lagrange equations in the configuration and state space | p. 681 |
| Hamilton equations and phase space | p. 684 |
| Lagrange equations in terms of pseudo coordinates | p. 685 |
| Motion of a rigid body | p. 689 |
| Dynamics of Motor Cycles | p. 697 |
| Basic definitions | p. 699 |
| Locked controls model | p. 703 |
| Locked controls stability | p. 709 |
| Steady-state motion | p. 715 |
| Free controls model | p. 717 |
| Stability at large roll angles | p. 723 |
| Wheeled Vehicles for Extraterrestrial Environments | p. 729 |
| The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) of the Apollo missions | p. 730 |
| Types of missions | p. 733 |
| Environmental conditions | p. 734 |
| Mobility | p. 736 |
| Behavior of vehicles in low gravity | p. 738 |
| Power system | p. 742 |
| Conclusions | p. 743 |
| Problems Related to Road Accidents | p. 745 |
| Vehicle collision: Impulsive model | p. 746 |
| Vehicle collision: Second approximation model | p. 760 |
| Motion after the collision | p. 774 |
| Rollover | p. 781 |
| Motion of transported objects during the impact | p. 791 |
| Data on Various Vehicles | p. 799 |
| Small car (a) | p. 799 |
| Small car (b) | p. 801 |
| Small car (c) | p. 803 |
| Medium size saloon car (a) | p. 805 |
| Medium size saloon car (b) | p. 807 |
| Sports car (a) | p. 808 |
| Sports car (b) | p. 811 |
| Van | p. 812 |
| Heavy articulated truck | p. 814 |
| Racing motorcycle | p. 816 |
| Bibliography of Volume 2 | p. 821 |
| Index | p. 825 |
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