Race Car Vehicle Dynamics: Problems, Answers and Experiments

Includes Race Car Vehicle Dynamics Program Suite on CD-ROM, a valuable learning tool and brand new addition to the RCVD series!

Written for the engineer as well as the race car enthusiast, Race Car Vehicle Dynamics (the original classic) gives a comprehensive treatment of vehicle dynamics and its application in a racing environment. RCVD, now in its sixth printing, is also widely used as a college textbook and has been an SAE best seller since its introduction.

Race Car Vehicle Dynamics: Problems, Answers and Experiments is a supplement to RCVD. It expands on the former RCVD Workbook in a number of ways:

Detailed worked solutions to all of the problems
Problems for every chapter in RCVD, including many new problems
The RCVD Program Suite (for Windows) with accompanying exercises
Experiments to try with your own vehicle
Educational appendix with additional references and course outlines
Well illustrated with over 90 figures and graphs

In addition to students, these worked solutions should be of interest to a wide audience, greatly expanding the examples presented in the original RCVD. The Program Suite was originally used in conjunction with a university course and has been specially developed for inclusion with this book. The educational supplement will be of interest to users who are unable to attend formal classes and wish to continue their education.

Engineers and designers of passenger cars, as well as race cars, will find worked solutions to many common problems.

Including Chassis Design: Principles and Analysis, this is the fourth vehicle dynamics book by Milliken and Milliken to be published by SAE.

We offer no apologies for making this important... book our choice for the second time around. Widely welcomed, its content is already beingput to good use by many race car engineers... Today, anyone who wishes to make a career by understanding the automobile and its vagaries should start here. And anyone who wishes to appear to understand it should have this book on his or her desk--in the same way that Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is essential!" --Race Car Engineering "...even if you're not historically inclined, the book's theoretical and technical sections (its vast majority) make for a definitive work on chassis dynamics, meaning that if you are an armchair John Barnhard (or are John Barnhard), you might want to box a dozen or so of your Porsche or Bugatti books and make some room on the bookshelf for Race Car Vehicle Dynamics." --Kim Reynolds, Road & Track "No other source provides such complete answers to why racing cars behave as they do. Very highly recommended." - Vintage Motorsport "An impressive... blend of analytical understanding and hard won practical experience from both passenger and race car design." --Automotive Engineer (published by IMechE) "On the macro level RCVD deals with general principles of vehicle dynamics but on the micro level was specifically geared towards racing; it synthesizes fundamental theory and practical application. Any race team that doesn't have a copy of this well written book is not winning as much as they could!" --Sabu Advani, SpeedReaders.info