Course detail
Motor Vehicles
FSI-QMVAcad. year: 2024/2025
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.
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Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Attendance at seminars is obligatory, checked by a teacher. The way of compensation of absence is solved individually with a course provider.
Aims
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.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
VLK, F. Podvozky motorových vozidel. Nakladatelství a zasilatelství vlk, Brno 2006, ISBN 802396464X (CS)
Recommended reading
HANEY, Paul. The Racing & High-Performance Tire. 1st edition. Warrendale: TV Motor-sports and SAE, 2003. 286 s. ISBN 0-9646414-2-9 (EN)
JAN, Zdeněk, ŽDÁNSKÝ, Bronislav a ČUPERA Jiří. Automobily (1): Podvozky. Brno: Avid, spol. s r.o., 2009. 245 s. ISBN 978-80-87143-11-7 (CS)
PUHN, Fred. Brake Handbook. Tucson: HPBooks, 1985. 176 s. ISBN 0-89586-232-8 (EN)
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Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
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
Teacher / Lecturer
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
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