The first part of this book is dedicated to the study of the often complex subsystems (such as suspensions) that constitute the chassis. Their primary function is to mediate the exchange of force with the ground, thus obtaining the desired vehicle speed and path. With reference to the system of coordinates that will be defined in part four, the forces exchanged with the ground can be classified as: | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SERIES Giancarlo Genta Lorenzo Morello The Automotive Chassis Volume 1 Components Design 0 Springer The Automotive Chassis Mechanical Engineering Series Frederick F Ling Editor-in-Chief The Mechanical Engineering Series features graduate texts and research monographs to address the need for information in contemporary mechanical engineering including areas of concentration of applied mechanics biomechanics computational mechanics dynamical systems and control energetics mechanics of materials processing production systems thermal science and tribology. Advisory Board Series Editors Applied Mechanics . Leckie University of California Santa Barbara D. Gross Technical University of Darmstadt Biomechanics . Mow Columbia University Computational Mechanics . Yang University of California Santa Barbara Dynamic Systems and Control Mechatronics D. Bryant University of Texas at Austin Energetics . Welty University of Oregon Eugene Mechanics of Materials I. Finnie University of California Berkeley Processing . Wang Cornell University Production Systems . Klutke Texas A M University Thermal Science . Bergles Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tribology . Winer Georgia Institute of Technology For other titles published in this series go to http .
