Literature options. Preliminary list.
Since the course does not start
until in November, people (you) may suggest literature which is more suitable
than the following proposals (under consideration in early September 1998).
Due to the tight schedule, I have not yet had time to check out more recent
editions. Please, excuse me if some of the listed textbooks below are unavailable
on the market.
Gillespie, Thomas D. (1992). Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics.
Requested by ITN in early October
SAE Order No.
R-114, Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (495pages) ISBN 1-5601-199-9.
This textbook covers important areas of vehicle dynamics
from the accident avoidance perspective. However, its numeric examples
use units such as inch, lb, degrees, etc and not metric units. Its cartesian
coordinate system has the z-axis pointing downwards, instead of upwards
like in the vehicle models common in Swedish education and research. This
may be confusing, but will also give the students experience in conversions,
which they may encounter in forthcoming situations.
Textbooks in German only
Metric units, upwards z-axis and
100 pages with test and measurement technology make the following
textbook a valuable supplement.
Zomotor, Adam (1987). Fahrwerktechnik:
Fahrverhalten.
Vogel Buchverlag (382 Seiten) ISBN 3-8023-0774-7.
A very useful handbook (not only
for accident investigators) which has been referred
to on the web in the late 90's:
Burg, Heinz & Hartmut Rau
(1981). Handbuch der Verkehrsunfallrekonstruktion.
Verlag INFORMATION Ambs GmbH (838 Seiten) ISBN 3 88550 020 5.
Collision mechanics is not covered
by the Gillespie book above.
Therefore, the following textbook may be needed, too.
Macmillan, R.H. (1983). Dynamics of vehicle collisions.
Requested by ITN in early October
Proceedings of the International Association for
Vehicle Design. SP5. (141pages) ISBN 0 907776 07 8.
Robert Bosch GmbH (199?). Automotive Handbook.
SAE publication in German, French and English from the Bosch
company. ISBN 0-89883-518-6.
Suggested by Chief Engineer Mats
Wallin at MTC Inc. for his lectures
on Environmental effects.
Doebelin, Ernest O. (1980). System Modeling and Response. Theoretical
and Experimental Approaches.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (587pages) ISBN 0-471-03211-5.
Jones, Ian S. (1976). The Effect of Vehicle Characteristics
on Road Accidents.
Pergamon Press. (219pages) ISBN 0-08-018963-6.
Schlesselman, James J. (1982). Case-Control Studies. Design,
Conduct, Analysis.
Oxford University Press, Inc. (354pages) ISBN 0-19-502933-X.
This epidemiological approach has been superior in
past investigations assessing relative risk factors in vehicles (and drivers).
If road and traffic factors interact, it may be necessary to neutralise
them by pairing case and control vehicles (drivers) with respect to road
and traffic conditions. See the reports below by Jones (1987). The method
will also open up a different perspective on the concept of exposure, which
may reveal new possibilities of safety improvements in drivers, vehicles
and their interaction.
The book may be covered by the October course in Traffic Statistics, given
by Mats Wiklund at the VTI.
Leasure, Jr. William A. & Williams, Jr. Sidney F. (1989).
Antilock Systems for Air-Braked Vehicles.
The 35th L. Ray Buckendale Lecture. SAE/SP-89/789 (indexed in
SAE Global Mobility Database, 67pages)
ISBN 0-89883-446-5.
Mobil Oil AB in Sweden will provide
the students with free copies of an illustrated popular overview of automobile
subsystems.
Mobil Oil Australia Ltd (1992). Your car and its functions.
(Retrieved in its Swedish translation: Din bil.
Så fungerar den.)
Certain parts of numerous reports
will be dealt with in detail.
Copies may be given to the students by the lecturers,
who are requested to provide the course secretariat with two reference
copies (in advance, please).
Some examples are given below.
Strandberg L, Nordström O, Nordmark S (1975). Safety problems
in commercial vehicle handling. Proc. Symposium on COMMERCIAL
VEHICLE BRAKING AND HANDLING. Highway Safety Research Institute, University
of Michigan, U.S.A., May 5-7, 1975. UM-HSRI-PF-75-6, pp.463-528. Reprint
in Report 82A, VTI.
Strandberg, Lennart (1978). Lateral Stability of Road Tankers.
VTI Report 138A. Volume I:
Main report, Volume II: Appendices.
Strandberg L (1983). On accident analysis and slip-resistance measurement.
ERGONOMICS, vol.26, no.1, pp11-32. Taylor & Francis,
London and Philadelphia.
The first part of this paper (pp.11-21) demonstrates
how certain hazards and basic similarities may be disguised and severely
underestimated by "single-type" accident models common in official
statistics, such as the ICD (International Statistical Classification of
Diseases, Injuries, and Causes of Death) used by the WHO.
Strandberg L (1983). Danger, rear wheel steering. JOURNAL
OF OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS, vol.5, pp39-58. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
The papers above and below on rear
wheel steering include mathematical equations on yaw stability and critical
speed, applicable to any four-wheel vehicle, irrespective of rear or front
wheel steering.
Strandberg L, Tengstrand G, Lanshammar H (1983). Accident hazards
of rear wheel steered vehicles. In G.Johannsen, J.E.Rijnsdorp
(eds.) IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Symposium on
ANALYSIS, DESIGN and EVALUATION of MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS, 1982, Baden-Baden.
Pergamon Press, Oxford & New York.
Stein, Howard S. & Ian S. Jones (1987). Crash Involvement
of Large Trucks By Configuration.
A Case-Control Study. Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety, January 1987.
Jones, Ian S. & Howard S. Stein (1987). Defective Equipment
and Tractor-Trailer Crash Involvement.
Insurance Institute
for Highway Safety, September 1987.
Strandberg L (1987). On the braking Safety of Articulated Heavy Freight
Vehicles. Proceedings of the OECD SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROLE
OF HEAVY FREIGHT VEHICLES IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, Montreal, Canada, April
28-30, 1987. VTI Reprint 134.
Neilson I, Strandberg L & other members of an EEVC Working Group
(1987). European Review of Heavy Goods Vehicle Safety. Proceedings
(pp 655673) on the ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON EXPERIMENTAL
SAFETY VEHICLES (ESV), Washington D.C., May 1215, 1987. VTI
Reprint 136.
Strandberg, L (1989). Braking Characteristics of 400 Heavy Vehicle
Trailer Combinations from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Proceedings
of the 12th ESV Conference (Gothenburg), Volume I: pp.139-159. VTI
Reprint 135.
Strandberg L (1989). Skidding Accidents and their Avoidance with
Different Cars. Proc. (pp.825-828) 12th INTERNATIONAL
TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY VEHICLES (ESV), 29 May-1 June.
VTI Reprint 158.
Strandberg L (1990). Aggressiveness and Accident
Avoidance Properties of Heavy Freight Vehicles. Proc.
of THIRD EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ROAD SAFETY RESEARCH
(ed: K.Rumar). VTI
Report no.366A, pp 81-88.
Strandberg L (1991). Crash Avoidance Capability
of 50 Drivers in Different Cars on Ice. Proceedings (pp.810-826)
on the THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY
VEHICLES, ESV, Paris, November 1991 (paper S7-O-08). VTI
Reprint 179.
Strandberg L (1993). Workshop on Assessments
of Driving Safety and of Crashworthiness. Proceedings
(pp.343-348) on the 26th International Symposium on Automotive Technology
and Automation, ISATA, Dedicated Conference on Road and Vehicle Safety,
(paper no.93SF078). VTI
Reprint 227.
Strandberg L (1995). Driving and crash safety
with antilock brakes (ABS). VETA
Dialogue no.3 (6 pages).
Strandberg L (1995). Misleading anti-looks
at Antilocks. Accident reconstruction with ABS brakes concealed? VETA
Prologue 951115 (5 pages).
List of reports to be extended
Unsorted Links:
Vehicle Safety Properties
& Environmental Effects
Associates contributing to the course
SAE - Society
of Automotive Engineers
Global Mobility Database Main Page
1998 FISITA World
Automotive Congress
Yahoo
Automotive Manufacturers
Auto-Links
- Web Sites of Interest to the Automobile Industry
The U.S. journal
Car and Driver
Search engine understanding sentences
in English, for instance:
braking
cars with anti lock ABS brakes
Some of "Jeeves" answers follow
below
Illustrated technical descriptions
of car subsystems
Brake
system overview
Hydraulic
brake system operation (NOT heavy vehicle air brakes)
Anti-Lock (ABS)
brakes
ABS brakes
devaluated due to ignorance of mileage?
ABS in Swedish winter tests
with 66 ordinary drivers
Don't "jerk
the steering wheel when emergency braking with ABS! It can get you
in big trouble"
"Practice
sudden stops in a safe situation!" (Animation demonstrating
steerability)
Bosch Electronic
Skid Prevention (ESP)
Fatalities due
to Better Front Tyres?
Bridgestone
tyres
Continental tyres
Goodyear tyres
Michelin tyres
The U.S. National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
The Swedish Road Administration
The independent VETA association
Debate on CO2-emissions and the
Greenhouse Effect:
Are variations
in atmospheric temperature caused by solar activity rather than by
anthropogenic CO2-emissions?
Are global climate
changes leading to changes in atmosphere CO2-contents instead of the other
way around?
(diagram from analyses
of 160000 year old polar ice by Australian independent scientist
John L. Daly)
Statement by Atmospheric Scientists
on Greenhouse Warming
List of links to be extended
Everyday life hints to foreigners in Sweden
(on students' request)
- Send e-mail to a fax
e.g. 011-363070 at the Campus
Norrköping Department of Science and Technology (ITN)
by using the address
Givenname.Familyname@F011363070.fax.sunet.se
- Email-messages accessible on the web
Open your free personal account at
Hotmail bought recently by Microsoft
(max 2Mbyte)
- Send text
messages to any GSM cellular phone.
(SMS up to 150 characters) free of charge
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