Download or read book Road Vehicle Dynamics: Fundamentals Of Modeling And Simulation written by Genta Alessandro and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Road Vehicle Dynamics supplies students and technicians working in industry with both the theoretical background of mechanical and automotive engineering, and the know-how needed to perform numerical simulations. Bringing together the foundations of the discipline and its recent developments in a single text, the book is structured in three parts: it begins with a historical overview of road vehicles; then deals with the forces exchanged between the vehicle and the road, and the vehicle and the air; and finally, deals with the dynamic behavior of the vehicle in normal driving conditions with some extensions towards conditions encountered in high-speed racing. Coverage of contemporary automatic controls is included in this edition.