Bosch Automotive Handbook - Softcover

Robert Bosch

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9780837616865: Bosch Automotive Handbook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0837616867 ISBN 13: 9780837616865

Publisher: Bentley Pub, 2011

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All about automotive engineering in a pocketbook

Robert Bosch GmbH published the first incarnation of the Automotive Handbook in 1932. The original preface to this edition introduced the book as follows: "These 'Technical Tables' are an attempt to give users of our products a small, handy collection of the interesting formulas, values, and figures - drawn mainly from automotive technology -that are otherwise scattered across various magazines." Three years later, the "Technical Tables" were renamed the "Automotive Handbook."

Over seventy-five years later, the Bosch Automotive Handbook is now an indispensable reference source of precise information on the subject of automotive technology. This brand-new 8th edition is revised and extended throughout.

Contents - central themes

Basic principles: physics, materials, machine parts, joining and bonding techniques
Vehicle physics: basic terms of automotive engineering, motor-vehicle dynamics, vehicle acoustics
Internal-combustion engines: gasoline engine, diesel engine, turbochargers and superchargers, exhaust-gas system
Emission-control and diagnosis legislation
Management for spark-ignition engines: manifold injection, gasoline direct injection, alternative gasoline-engine operation
Management for diesel engines: common rail
Alternative drives: hybrid drive, fuel cell
Chassis systems: suspension, wheel suspensions, steering, brake systems
Active safety: antilock braking system, driving-dynamics control system
Lighting equipment
Automotive electrics: vehicle electrical systems, starter batteries, electrical machines, alternators
Automotive electronics: automotive networking, buses, architecture of electronic systems, sensors
Driver-assistance systems: parking systems, vehicle navigation, Adaptive Cruise Control, night-vision systems

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Automotive Subjects included for the first time:

# Aerodynamics

# Analog and digital signal transmission

# Coating systems

# Commercial-vehicle braking management as the platform for commercial-vehicle driver assistance systems

# Development methods and application-engineering tools for electronic systems

# Diagnostics

# Emissions reduction systems

# Engine lubrication

# Environmental management