1st Edition
Driveline Systems of Ground Vehicles Theory and Design
"With this book, Prof. Dr. Vantsevich brings a tremendous contribution to the field of Automotive Transmission and Driveline Engineering, including his innovative methods for optimum driveline synthesis, as well as his experience with the development of various hardware solutions, from the basic limited slip differentials to the most sophisticated mechatronic systems."
—Dr.-Ing. Mircea Gradu
Director, Transmission and Driveline Engineering
Head, Virtual Analysis Tools
Chrysler Group LLC
Now that vehicles with four and more driving wheels are firmly ensconced in the consumer market, they must provide energy/fuel-saving benefits and improved operational quality including terrain mobility, traction and velocity properties, turnability, and stability of motion. A first-of-its-kind resource, Driveline Systems of Ground Vehicles: Theory and Design presents a comprehensive and analytical treatment of driveline research, design, and tests based on energy efficiency, vehicle dynamics, and operational properties requirements.
This volume addresses fundamental engineering problems including how to investigate the effect of different driveline systems on the properties of vehicles and how to determined the optimal characteristics of the driveline system and its power-dividing units (PDUs) and design it for a specific vehicle to ensure high level of vehicle dynamics, energy efficiency, and performance. The authors develop an analytical apparatus for math modeling of driveline systems that can be compiled from different types of PDUs. They also introduce methodologies for the synthesis of optimal characteristics of PDUs for different types of vehicles.
Structured to be useful to engineers of all levels of experience, university professors and graduate students, the book is based on the R&D projects conducted by the authors. It explores intriguing engineering dilemmas such as how to achieve higher energy and fuel efficiency by driving either all the wheels or not all the wheels, solve oversteering issues by managing wheel power distribution, and many other technical problems.
Driveline Systems and Vehicle Performance
Brief Review of Driveline Systems History
Classification of Driveline Systems and Power Dividing Units
Wheel Dynamics and Energy Efficiency
Vehicle Energy=Fuel Efficiency and Driveline Systems Design
Vehicle Performance and Driveline Systems Design
Principles of Driveline System Design
Interwheel and Interaxle Open and Lockable Differentials
Kinematics and Dynamics of Differentials: The Gear-Ratio Concept
Kinematics of a Vehicle with an Interaxle Differential
Tooth Forces in Bevel-Gear Differentials
Robustness of Differentials
Design of Axle=Interwheel Differentials
Design of Interaxle Differentials and Transfer Cases
Designing Locking Devices
Wheel Power Distribution and Vehicle Performance
Optimal and Reasonable Differential Gear Ratios: Control Principles
Automatic and Manual Positively Engaged Power-Dividing Units
Designs of Power-Dividing Units
Kinematic Discrepancy and Generalized Vehicle Parameters
Wheel Slips and Circumferential Wheel Forces
Wheel Power Distributions and Vehicle Energy=Fuel Efficiency
Wheel Power Distribution and Vehicle Performance
Optimal and Reasonable Kinematic Discrepancy: Control Principles
Limited Slip Differentials
Torque Biasing and Locking Performance
Disk Differentials without Additional Lockers
Disk Differentials with Cam Lockers
Disk Differentials with V-Lockers
Worm-Gear Differentials
Cam-Plunger Differentials
Torque Sensitive Differentials
Speed Sensitive Differentials
Force Fluctuations in Disk Differentials
Tractive Performance and Yaw Moment of a Drive Axle
Asymmetrical Interaxle Differentials
Free-Running Differentials and Viscous Clutches
Design and Operating Principles of Free-Running Differentials
Applications of Free-Running Differentials
Viscous Clutches: Operation and Design Aspects
Combined Automated Mechanical Driveline Systems
Vehicle Operational Properties
A Method of Synthesizing Driveline Systems with Optimal Properties
Objective Function Analysis
Synthesis of the Properties of Interwheel Power-Dividing Units
Synthesis of Properties of Interaxle Power-Dividing Units
Synthesis of Properties of Interwheel and Interaxle Power-Dividing Units
Mechatronic Driveline Systems
Simple, Combined, and Integrated Driveline Systems—A Brief Overview
Inverse Wheel Dynamics and Control
Proactive Assessment of Terrain Conditions
Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanical Subsystems
Design of Simple and Combined Driveline Systems
Design of Integrated Driveline Systems
Hybrid Driveline Systems
Testing of Driveline Systems and Multiwheel Drive Vehicles
Laboratory Studies of the Locking Performance of Differentials
Laboratory Testing of Friction Clutches of Differentials
Laboratory Tests of Differential Lubrication Systems
Field and Road Tests of Wheeled Vehicles
Biography
Vladimir V. Vantsevich is a tenured full professor in mechanical engineering and the director of the Master of Science in Mechatronic Systems Engineering Program at Lawrence Technological University. Alexandr F. Andreev and Viachaslau I. Kabanau are both associate professors in the Tractor Engineering Department at Belarus National Technical University.
