Increasing demands concerning safety, economic impact, fuel consumption and comfort result in a growing utilisation of mechatronic components and networking of up to now widely independent systems in vehicles. The development of networked electronic control units (ECU) as the most frequent mechatronic applications contains three core aspects: the development of the (control) functions itself, a...

Introduction Reforming (i.e., partial oxidation, steam reforming, or autothermal reforming (ATR)) of infrastructure fuels, such as natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline, or diesel, is one approach being investigated for distributed H2 production for use with fuel cell systems being developed for automotive and stationary applications. One area of interest is reforming gasoline either o...

The design of engine control systems has been traditionally carried out using a mix of heuristic techniques validated by simulation and prototyping using approximate mean– value models. However, the ever increasing demands on passengers’ comfort, safety, emissions and fuel consumption imposed by car manufacturers and regulations call for more robust techniques and the use of cycle–accurate mode...

Recently developed automotive components are getting lighter providing a higher fuel efficiency and performance. In this research, the shape of upper control arm was determined by applying the optimization technology. This study considers the static strength in the optimization process. In this study, the kriging interpolation method is adopted to obtain the minimum weight satisfying the static...

Stalbaum, Tyler P., M.S.I.E., Purdue University, May, 2013. High Speed Turning of Compact Graphite Iron using Controlled Modulation. Major Professors: Srinivasan Chandrasekar and W. Dale Compton. Compacted graphite iron (CGI) is a material which emerged as a candidate material to replace cast iron (CI) in the automotive industry for engine block castings. Its thermal and mechanical properties a...