Automobile Engineering by R. B. Gupta is designed to guide all students of automobile engineering. The book provides the reader with all the specific information on the subject with detailed and clear explanations, thus serving as a useful guide to students preparing and revising for their exams.
\r \tAutomobile Engineering by R. B. Gupta is designed to guide all students of automobile engineering. The book provides the reader with all the specific information on the subject with detailed and clear explanations, thus serving as a useful guide to students preparing and revising for their exams.
Syntactic foams are widely used in structural applications of automobiles, aircrafts and underwater vehicles due to their lightweight properties combined with high compression strength and low moisture absorption. Structural application requires drilling of holes for assembly purpose. In this investigation response surface methodology based mathematical models are used to analyze the effects of cutting speed, feed, drill diameter and filler content on circularity error both at entry and exit level in drilling of glass microballoon reinforced epoxy syntactic foam. Experiments are conducted based on full factorial design using solid coated tungsten carbide twist drills. The parametric analysis reveals that circularity error is highly influenced by drill diameter followed by spindle speed at the entry and exit level. Parametric analysis also reveals that increasing filler content decreases circularity error by 13.65 and 11.96% respectively at entry and exit levels. Average circularity error at the entry level is found to be 23.73% higher than at the exit level.
Vehicles, specifically automobile, provide essential need to society and the use is continually increasing. However, there were many problem arise at the end of their life, primarily related to their disposal. Automobile is a very complex product that comprise of thousand components made from various materials that need to be treated. In addition, short supply of natural resources has called out for opportunities to either reuse or recycle components.
End of Life Vehicle (ELV) Directive launched by European Union mandated that recyclability rate of automobile must reach 85% by 2015. The aim of this legislation is to minimize the impact of end of life vehicle, contributing to prevention, preservation and improvement of environment quality and energy conservation. Vehicle manufacturers and suppliers requested to include these aspects at earlier stages of the development of new vehicles, in order to facilitate the treatment of vehicles at the time when they reach the end of their life. Therefore, the automobile industry has to establish its voluntary action plan for ELVs, and has numerical target to improve ELV recycling rate, reduce automotive shredder residue (ASR) landfill volume, and reduce lead content.