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Brake Design and Safety: Second Edition

Brake Design and Safety, Second Edition, provides a systems approach to designing safer brakes for cars, light trucks, tractor-trailers, and heavy equipment.

This book was written to help engineers to design safer brakes that can be operated and maintained easily. All the necessary analytical tools to study and determine the involvement of brakes in accident causation are included as well as all essential concepts, guidelines, and design checks. The second

edition has been revised and updated to include newer brake technology, including anti-lock braking systems (ABS), braking by wire, and the mechanical and thermal analysis of disk brakes.

Chapters cover: Elements of Braking Performance, Design, and Safety; Design and Analysis of Friction Brakes; Thermal Analysis of Friction Brakes; Analysis of Mechanical Brake Systems; Analysis of Hydraulic Brake Systems; Analysis of Air Brake Systems; Single Vehicle Braking Dynamics; Braking Dynamics of Combination Vehicles; Anti-Lock Brake Systems (ABS); and Analysis of Brake Failure.

Brake Design and Safety is a single source of information for automotive engineers, consultants, and professionals involved in brake design, performance analysis, accident reconstruction, and product liability.

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Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction and Cause Analysis: Sixth Edition

To prove the cause of traffic accidents, you need more than the opinions of witnesses. You need hard facts. This one-volume resource gives you the fundamentals you need to introduce the laws of nature successfully in a court of law. It shows you how scientific principles apply to specific motor vehicle components, road conditions, and accident circumstances.

Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction and Cause Analysis offers straightforward explanations of technical concepts involved in:

Mechanics of motor vehicle components
Collision speed calculations
Motion analysis and speed calculations
Driver view field analysis
Vehicle braking analysis
Tire force analysis
Accident scene data
Test and injury data

Features diagrams, photographs, examples from actual cases, and research data that simplify engineering principles. Useful for attorneys, investigating officers, traffic safety engineers, and claims adjusters.

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