Course detail
Motor Vehicles
FSI-QMV Acad. year: 2024/2025 Summer semester
Subject motor vehicles focuses on problems of construction, testing, driving charecteristic and modern motor vehicles and trailers operation. Private cars, trucks, buses, semi-trailers and trailers. This subject is about structural solution of basic parts of modern motor vehicles e.g. axles and their suspension and damping, brake systems including electronic systems (ABS, ESP, HBA,... ), steering mechanisms, incorporation of engine aggregate into a car including its operating mechanism. Following will be a talk about active and pasive safety of vehicles including the most modern asistent systems in vehicles.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
6
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
kinematics basics, dynamics basics, strength of materials basics, machine parts design and mechanisms, vehicle dynamics
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Requirements for Course-unit credit award: The orientation within problems discussed and the ability of solving them, examined by working-out assigned tasks without significant mistakes. Continuous study checking is carried out together with given tasks verification. Examination: The exam verifies and evaluates the knowledge of physical fundamentals of presented problems, theirs mathematical description on a presented level and application to solved tasks. The exam consists of a written part (test) and an oral part. Final evaluation consists of: 1. Evaluation of the work on seminars (elaborated tasks). 2. Result of the writing part of the exam (test). 3. Result of the oral part of the exam.
Attendance at seminars is obligatory, checked by a teacher. The way of compensation of absence is solved individually with a course provider.
Aims
The target of this subject is to acquaint the graduates with fundamental part of modern technology of vehicles construction in connection with the user and technology of production.
Graduates of this subject will obtain complete rewiew of basic connections for motor vehicles construction including illustrations of specific technical solutions of both private cars and trucks of the most modern style. Furthemore, graduates will get an idea about possibilities component and complex automobile testing.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-AAE-P: Advanced Automotiv Engineering, Master's, compulsory-optional
Programme N-ADI-P: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, Master's, compulsory-optional
Programme C-AKR-P: , Lifelong learning
specialization CLS: , elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1.-2. Types and conceptions of road vehicles, vehicle body – types of vehicle body (shape, use), design of the body, materials
3. Passive safety (crashes of the vehicles, biomechanics, traffic participants protection, restraint systems)
4.-5. Tyres and wheels
6.-8. Wheel suspension systems
9.-10. Springing and damping– springs, anti-roll bars, shock absorbers
11.-12. Braking systems – friction brakes, braking components (components of braking systems), ABS
13. Steering
Laboratory exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Vehicle design introduction
2. Driving resistance
2. Mass, centre of gravity position
3. Vehicle moment of inertia
4. Tyres
5. Wheel suspension – wheel alignment
7. Wheel suspension – kinematic characteristics
8. Wheel suspension – suspension design
9. Springing and damping characteristics – measurement
10. Springing and damping characteristics – design
11. Braking systems
12. Steering systems
13. Analysis of track test data