Car Body Design

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Department of Transporting Technology

Synopsis:

Vehicle design principles, national and international legislation. View out of the vehicle, operational areas, view behind the vehicle. Self-carrying body of the vehicle and vehicle frame, drive location. Materials for vehicle construction. Car body statics, elastic deformation in operation. Dynamics and body propulsion. Critical states, crash and plastic deformation. Frontal and side crash, roll-over and testing methodology. Aerodynamic.

Requirements:

not defined

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Study Objective:

Explain the project of a vehicle, principles of car body construction, legislation, car body design, operational a critical states of the vehicle, non-traditional materials use, aerodynamics of the body. The aim is to understand the car body design principle and its operational conditions.

Study materials:

Kovanda, J., Tobolář, J., Kotyk, J.: Karosérie. Skriptum ČVUT, 1997

Kovanda, B., Kovanda, J.: Aerodynamika vozidel. Skriptum ČVUT, 1999

First, J.: Zkoušení automobilů a motocyklů. SnT a FD ČVUT Praha, 2008

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• BI nav.prez. 11/12 (compulsory elective course)
• DS nav.prez. 11/12 (compulsory elective course)
• ID nav.prez. 11/12 (compulsory elective course)
• ME nav.prez. 11/12 (compulsory elective course)
• PL nav.prez. 11/12 (compulsory elective course)
• TR nav.prez. 11/12 (compulsory elective course)