Study Guide

Objectives

Student learn about environmentally friendly vehicle engineering.

Student are able to:
- design and choose vehicle and power transfer main components such as shaft clutches and couplings, brakes and belt transmissions
- build larger systems using standards and manufactures catalogs and engineered components
- design components and transmissions such as engine-clutch-gearbox-wheels systems
- design vehicle combinations' pulling components, axles and air brakes

Study course includes lectures, design exercises, project work and home work.

Content

Selection and dimension of the machine elements and joints of the power transmission. Standard-based dimension. Shaft clutches and brakes. Chain and belt drives. Shaft-hub joints (profile shafts) and shaft joints (the couplings and universal joints).

Design of vehicle combinations' pulling components, driving axles and air brakes.

Prerequisites

Basic know-how of
- machine design,
- vehicle dynamics and statics of rigid bodies,
- strength of materials
Basics of finite element method is strongly recommended at least at the same time with this course.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student recognizes some key machine parts, connections and transmissions in mechanical engineering and power transmission, such as axle couplings, brakes and chain transmissions, and can, under guidance, measure them for simple objects. The student becomes aware of the importance of standards in selection dimensioning and, under guidance, is able to form larger entities, components and drives, such as motor-clutch-gear-drives, using machine parts they have dimensioned themselves and selected from manufacturers' catalogs. The student is only somewhat motivated, takes responsibility for his own performance, knows how to work in a group and give and receive feedback.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

The student knows well the key machine parts, joints and transmissions of mechanical engineering and power transmission, such as axle couplings, brakes and chain transmissions, and can independently measure them for common objects. The student takes into account the correct standards in selection dimensioning and knows how to independently form larger entities, components and drives, such as motor-clutch-gear-drives, using machine parts they have measured themselves and selected from manufacturers' catalogs. The student is clearly motivated, takes responsibility for his own and the group's performance, and knows how to constructively give and receive feedback.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student knows and understands the key machine parts, connections and transmissions of mechanical engineering and power transmission, such as axle couplings, brakes and chain transmissions, and can apply them to the most demanding applications. The student duly takes into account the correct standards and different solution options in selection dimensioning and knows how to independently form larger entities, components and drives, such as motor-clutch-gear-drives, using the machine parts they have dimensioned themselves and selected from manufacturers' catalogs. The student is highly motivated, takes committed responsibility for his own and the group's performance, and knows how to use feedback systematically as a tool for professional growth.