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    • Autonomous Vehicle Safety Solutions

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Aparna Kumari
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 5 2 8 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 5 2 9 7
      Autonomous Vehicle Safety Solutions: Foundations, Technologies, and Prospects for the Future addresses the dynamically evolving state of the art that traverses and brings together automotive engineering, electronics engineering, and computer science. Its technical overview of smart vehicles' capabilities, propelled by headway in artificial intelligence and sensor technologies, enables in-depth understanding of the safety-assurance complexities that guide their design and operation.The comprehensive volume distinguishes itself for its treatment of several exciting, emerging opportunities and trends, including machine learning algorithms, V2X connectivity, and cybersecurity. Up-to-date applications are featured through practical examples and expert insights, bringing additional value to a discourse which underscores the critical need for ongoing safety advancements and adaptability in the fast-moving context of autonomous driving systems, with their related implications on sustainability and society as a whole.The outcome is a cornerstone resource for academia and industry alike that encourages further transformative, interdisciplinary investigations to bring safety solutions to maturity and subsequent rigorous testing for validation standards to be defined, thus realizing, in a future not distant from now, a scenario where self-driving vehicles can co-exist seamlessly with traditional modes of transportation and also integrate reliably, efficiently, and without risks within the larger infrastructure.

    • Structural Adhesive Bonding for Automotive Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2025
      • Alireza Akhavan-Safar + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 3 9 1 2 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 3 9 1 1 3
      Structural adhesive bonding is a key approach to making cars better and safer while also reducing their environmental impact. Structural Adhesive Bonding for Automotive Applications covers several aspects of bonded joints, including materials selection, design and manufacturing processes, quality control techniques, durability analysis, and repair methods. Practical examples support the investigations into the improvements that adhesively bonded configurations offer, including enhanced resistance to dynamic fatigue, increased body stiffness, better crash performance compared with other conventional joining methods, and greater corrosion resistance.The book provides a timely compendium of specialized knowledge alongside the current state of the art, which should appeal to a broad range of audiences—from students who wish to further their understanding of adhesive science and bonded vehicle structures to manufacturing and design engineers who wish to gain an appreciation of new technology in adhesive joining.

    • Sustainable Composites for Automotive Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • September 26, 2025
      • Vijay Raghunathan + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 3 6 6 9 3
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 3 6 7 0 9
      Sustainable Composites for Automotive Engineering presents recent trends in this important research field. Emphasis is placed on the development, characterization, and application of lightweight composites in various automobile components. The types of materials covered include polymer composites, metal matrix and ceramic matrix composites. The book takes a 360-degree approach and covers all aspects of the product development cycle including materials selection, as well as design and development processes, testing, characterization, modelling and simulation, and applications. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers, industrial R&D, automotive engineers, and manufacturers working in the design and development of composite materials for applications in automotive components.

    • Prediction Methods and Evaluation of the Fatigue Life for Automotive Structural Components

      • 1st Edition
      • June 16, 2025
      • Xintian Liu + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 0 2 3 5 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 0 2 3 6 7
      Prediction Methods and Evaluation of the Fatigue Life for Automotive Structural Components covers this important component that affects the performance of the entire vehicle. The light weight of automotive structural components is one of the sustainable solutions to energy and environmental issues, and the development technology of its core components and vehicle performance evaluation technology are its key development directions. To gradually replace traditional cars on a large scale, electric vehicles need to address the durability and reliability issues of the entire vehicle and key components.

    • Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track

      • 1st Edition
      • August 19, 2025
      • Yunlong Guo + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 3 6 8 2
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 3 6 9 9
      Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track explores the optimization of railway ballast tracks to achieve resilience, sustainability, and intelligence in railway infrastructure. It summarizes and examines new technologies and developments that address unresolved rapid defects in track components, such as rail damage, track stability, ballast flight, and ballast fouling. This book discusses the application of innovative materials derived from waste and recycled railway components, including derived aggregates, recycled ballast, Neoballast, and polyurethane (often referred to as ballast glue). This book examines state-of-the-art structural health monitoring techniques, such as smart sleepers, interferometric synthetic aperture radar, ground-penetrating radar, and inspection robots.

    • Knowledge Graph-Based Methods for Automated Driving

      • 1st Edition
      • April 11, 2025
      • Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 0 0 4 0 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 0 0 4 1 7
      The global race to develop and deploy automated vehicles is still hindered by significant challenges, with the related complexities requiring multidisciplinary research approaches. Knowledge Graph-Based Methods for Automated Driving offers sought-after, specialized know-how for a wide range of readers both in academia and industry on the use of graphs as knowledge representation techniques which, compared to other relational models, provide a number of advantages for data-driven applications like automated driving tasks. The machine learning pipeline presented in this volume incorporates a variety of auxiliary information, including logic rules, ontology-informed workflows, simulation outcomes, differential equations, and human input, with the resulting operational framework being more reliable, secure, efficient as well as sustainable. Case studies and other practical discussions exemplify these methods’ promising and exciting prospects for the maturation of scalable solutions with potential to transform transport and logistics worldwide.

    • Advances in Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles

      • 1st Edition
      • February 15, 2024
      • Haifeng Dai + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 5 5 4 3 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 5 5 4 4 4
      Advances in Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles: Degradation Mechanism, Health Estimation, and Lifetime Prediction examines the electrochemical nature of lithium-ion batteries, including battery degradation mechanisms and how to manage the battery state of health (SOH) to meet the demand for sustainable development of electric vehicles. With extensive case studies, methods and applications, the book provides practical, step-by-step guidance on battery tests, degradation mechanisms, and modeling and management strategies. The book begins with an overview of Li-ion battery aging and battery aging tests before discussing battery degradation mechanisms and methods for analysis.Further methods are then presented for battery state of health estimation and battery lifetime prediction, providing a range of case studies and techniques. The book concludes with a thorough examination of lifetime management strategies for electric vehicles, making it an essential resource for students, researchers, and engineers needing a range of approaches to tackle battery degradation in electric vehicles.

    • Vehicular Platoon System Design

      • 1st Edition
      • August 13, 2024
      • Hui Zhang + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 8 5 7 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 8 5 8 5
      Vehicular Platoon System Design: Fundamentals and Robustness provides a comprehensive introduction to connected and automated vehicular platoon system design. Platoons decrease the distances between cars or trucks using electronic, and possibly mechanical, coupling. This capability allows many cars or trucks to accelerate or brake simultaneously. It also allows for a closer headway between vehicles by eliminating reacting distance needed for human reaction. The book considers the key issues of robustness and cybersecurity, with optimization-based model predictive control schemes applied to control vehicle platoon.In the controller design part, several practical problems, such as constraint handling, optimal control performance, robustness against disturbance, and resilience against cyberattacks are reviewed. In addition, the book provides detailed theoretical analysis of the stability of the platoon under different control schemes.

    • Construction Methods for an Autonomous Driving Map in an Intelligent Network Environment

      • 1st Edition
      • April 4, 2024
      • Zhijun Chen
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 7 3 1 6 2
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 7 3 1 7 9
      Construction Methods for an Autonomous Driving Map in an Intelligent Network Environment not only supports the development of Intelligent & Connected Transportation, but also promotes the landing application of autonomous driving. Areas covered include the fusion target perception method based on vehicle vision and millimeter wave radar, cross-field of view object perception method, vehicle motion recognition method based on vehicle road fusion information, vehicle trajectory prediction method based on improved hybrid neural network and driving map construction driven by road perception fusion are introduced in this book.Benefiting from the development of computer technique, the advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence theories are used by this book to show readers the construction process of the Autonomous Driving Map.

    • Terramechanics and Off-Road Vehicle Engineering

      • 3rd Edition
      • April 23, 2024
      • J.Y. Wong
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 5 6 1 4 4
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 5 6 1 5 1
      Terramechanics and Off-Road Vehicle Engineering: Terrain Behaviour and Off-Road Mobility, Third Edition provides comprehensive coverage of terrain behavior, mechanics of wheel- and track-terrain interaction, and various types of models for cross-country performance, ranging from empirical, through theoretical, to physics-based engineering models. The physics-based models for wheeled and tracked vehicle performance developed under the direction of Prof. J.Y. Wong have been gaining increasingly wider acceptance by industry and governmental agencies. The mathematical models established for vehicle-terrain systems enable the engineering practitioner to evaluate a wide range of options and select an appropriate vehicle configuration for any given mission and environment.This long-anticipated revision presents the fields’ significant developments over the past decade, both through updates to existing chapters and the inclusion of new material related to modeling applications in addition to a notable, state-of-the-art excursus on extra-terrestrial rovers.