Course Syllabus

Braking System: Principles, Components.Hydraulic Systems, Hydraulic Valves and Switches, Brake Fluid and Lines Wheel Bearings – Drum and Disc Brakes. Parking Brake System design –Analytic and understanding of brake system design-Power Brake System – Regenerative Braking Page 6 of 21 Systems, ABS Components and Operation – Electronic Stability Control Systems, Tires and Wheels – Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems – Suspension System Components and Operation, Front and rear suspension – Electronic Suspension Systems,.

Steering systems – Columns and Gears – Steering Linkage – Analytic and understanding of steering system design-Power-Assisted Steering Operation, Drive Axle Shafts and CV Joints, Wheel Alignment Principles – Design features and standards of chassis systems.Basic Elements of Vehicle and Transmission Engineering – Selecting the Ratios – Overall Gear Ratio, Planetary gear systems-Multi-plate clutches – Dry Clutches – Wet clutches Dual clutches – Hydrodynamic Clutches and Torque Converters. Matching Engine and Transmission, traction diagram, Geared Transmission with Dry Clutch and torque converter.

Transmission:BasicDesign Principles – Arrangement. Passenger Car Transmissions – Manual Passenger Car – Automated Manual Transmissions – Dual Clutch Transmissions – Automatic and Hybrid Drives – Continuously Variable Transmissions. Final drives – axle drives – Differential Gears and Locking Differentials – hub drives. Gear shiftingMechanisms. Electronic Transmission Control.

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2. C.R. Burrows and K.A. Edge, “Power Transmission and Motion Control”, John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
3. Abbot and Sheldon L, “Automotive Power Trains: Clutch, Manual Transmission, Transaxle and Final Drive”, McGraw Hill, 1988.
4. Halderman, “Automotive Chassis Systems”, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2008.
5. Genta, Giancarlo ,Morello L, “The Automotive Chassis Vol 1 – Component Design”and“The Automotive Chassis Vol 2 – System Design”, Springer, 2009.