New advances in vehicular technology and automotive engineering

Carmo, João Paulo; Ribeiro, J.E.

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New advances in vehicular technology and automotive engineering

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dc.contributor.author	Carmo, João Paulo
dc.contributor.author	Ribeiro, J.E.
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-17T12:12:56Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-17T12:12:56Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	An automobile was seen as a simple accessory of luxury in the early years of the past century. Therefore, it was an expensive asset which none of the common citizen could afford. It was necessary to pass a long period and waiting for Henry Ford to establish the first plants with the series fabrication. This new industrial paradigm makes easy to the common American to acquire an automobile, either for running away or for working purposes. Since that date, the automotive research grown exponentially to the levels observed in the actuality. Now, the automobiles are indispensable goods; saying with other words, the automobile is a first necessity article in a wide number of aspects of living: for workers to allow them to move from their homes into their workplaces, for transportation of students, for allowing the domestic women in their home tasks, for ambulances to carry people with decease to the hospitals, for transportation of materials, and so on, the list don’t ends. The new goal pursued by the automotive industry is to provide electric vehicles at low cost and with high reliability. This commitment is justified by the oil’s peak extraction on 50s of this century and also by the necessity to reduce the emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere, as well as to reduce the needs of this even more valuable natural resource. In order to achieve this task and to improve the regular cars based on oil, the automotive industry is even more concerned on doing applied research on technology and on fundamental research of new materials. The most important idea to retain from the previous introduction is to clarify the minds of the potential readers for the direct and indirect penetration of the vehicles and the vehicular industry in the today’s life. In this sequence of ideas, this book tries not only to fill a gap by presenting fresh subjects related to the vehicular technology and to the automotive engineering but to provide guidelines for future research. This book account with valuable contributions from worldwide experts of automotive’s field. The amount and type of contributions were judiciously selected to cover a broad range of research. The reader can found the most recent and cutting-edge sources of information divided in four major groups: electronics (power, communications, optics, batteries, alternators and sensors), mechanics (suspension control, torque converters, deformation analysis, structural monitoring), materials (nanotechnology, nanocomposites, lubrificants, biodegradable, composites, structural monitoring) and manufacturing (supply chains). We are sure that you will enjoy this book and will profit with the technical and scientific contents. To finish, we are thankful to all of those who contributed to this book and who made it possible.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.doi	10.5772/2617	pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn	978-953-51-0698-2
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10198/26118
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	INTECH	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Nanotechnology	pt_PT
dc.subject	Automotive industries	pt_PT
dc.subject	Hybrid electric vehicles	pt_PT
dc.subject	Batteries	pt_PT
dc.subject	Nanocomposites	pt_PT
dc.subject	Lubrificants	pt_PT
dc.title	New advances in vehicular technology and automotive engineering	pt_PT
dc.type	book
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