New Trends and Developments in Automotive System Engineering

New Trends and Developments in Automotive System Engineering Preface......Page 1
Part 1......Page 15
01_Experimental Test of a Diesel Engine using Envo-Diesel as an Alternative Fuel......Page 17
02_Analytical Methods for Determining Automotive Fuel Composition......Page 27
03_Automotive Fuel Consumption in Brazil: Applying Static and Dynamic Systems of Demand Equations......Page 43
Part 2......Page 59
04_Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of Forging Die Steels......Page 61
05_Optimization of Injection Moulded Polymer Automotive Components......Page 79
06_High Mn TWIP Steels for Automotive Applications......Page 115
07_Powder Injection Moulding – An Alternative Processing Method for Automotive Items......Page 143
08_Thermomechanical and Isothermal Fatigue Behavior of Gray Cast Iron for Automotive Brake Discs......Page 161
09_Advanced Robotic Radiative Process Control for Automotive Coatings......Page 181
Part 3......Page 201
10_DC/DC Step-Up Converters for Automotive Applications: a FPGA Based Approach......Page 203
11_The Thermo-mechanical Behavior in Automotive Brake and Clutch Systems......Page 221
12_Dynamic Analysis of an Automobile Lower Suspension Arm Using Experiment and Numerical Technique......Page 245
13_Increased Cooling Power with Nucleate Boiling Flow in Automotive Engine Applications......Page 263
14_The “Equivalent Cable Bundle Method”: an Efficient Multiconductor Reduction Technique to Model Automotive Cable Networks......Page 287
15_Fatigue Characteristic of Automotive Jounce Bumper......Page 311
Part 4......Page 321
16_On the Control of Automotive Traction PEM Fuel Cell Systems......Page 323
17_An AdaptiveyTwo-Stage Observer in the Control of a New ElectromagneticyValve Actuator for Camless Internal Combustion Engines......Page 357
18_Integrated Controller Design for Automotive Semi-Active Suspension Considering Vehicle Behavior with Steering Input......Page 383
19_Design of an Embedded Controller for Some Applications of an Automotives......Page 397
20_Arbitration Schemes for Multiprocessor Shared Bus......Page 409
21_Towards Automotive Embedded Systems with Self-X Properties......Page 425
22_4D Ground Plane Estimation Algorithm for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems......Page 447
Part 5......Page 463
23_Hexachlorocyclohexanes in Arctic and Antarctic Marine Ecosystems......Page 465
24_Information and Communication Support for Automotive Testing and Validation......Page 487
25_Trends towards Automotive Electronic Vision Systems for Mitigation of Accidents in Safety Critical Situations......Page 507
26_Advancements in Automotive Antennas......Page 527
Part 6......Page 553
27_Automotive VHDL-AMS Electro-mechanics Simulations......Page 555
28_Potential and Drawbacks of Raman (Micro)Spectrometry for the Understanding of Iron and Steel Corrosion......Page 581
29_Computational Techniques for Automotive Antenna Simulations......Page 599
30_Voltage Stability Analysis of Automotive Power Nets Based on Modeling and Experimental Results......Page 625
Part 7......Page 645
31_Urban and Extra Urban Vehicles: Re-Thinking the Vehicle Design......Page 647
32_Analysis Approach of How University Automotive Competitions Help Students to Accelerate Their Automotive Engineer Profile......Page 663