Handling/Vehicle Dynamics Books
Understanding how the design of a vehicle affects it’s performance is critical. After all, how can we hope to achieve the best possible handling unless we understand the vehicle components, their interactions and the physical forces that define a car’s handling? While the internet does provide some insights, the best and most complete information is available in a number of excellent books on handling and vehicle dynamics.
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| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  Analysis Techniques for Racecar Data Aquisition  (5 / 5)Provides a comprehensive understanding of data acquisition and sensors as well as techniques for analyzing and correctly interpreting the data captured with data acquisition systems. Topics include data analysis software, and the analysis of data including: basic circuit layout, acceleration, braking, gearing, cornering, tire performance, wheel loading, shock absorbers, suspension frequency analysis, aerodynamics, and driver inputs. The book also includes sections on simulation tools and race strategy. Get "Analysis Techniques for Racecar Data Aquisition":    | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  Car Suspension at Work : Theory & Practice of Steering, Handling & Roadholding  (4 / 5)Written as an overview with many examples, photographs and diagrams, this book provides an introduction and insights into many types of road vehicle suspensions and powertrain configurations. The cut-away diagrams are great for those who want to see inside many production vehicle suspensions. Get "Car Suspension at Work : Theory & Practice of Steering, Handling & Roadholding": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  Carroll Smith's Engineer in Your Pocket  (4.5 / 5)At-the-track reference guide for handling troubleshooting. Spiral bound and meant to be carried in the pocket, it covers issues from two perspectives: cause with possible effects, and problems with possible causes. Get "Carroll Smith's Engineer in Your Pocket": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  DIY Testing of Car Modifications  (3.5 / 5)Provides low cost techniques to help measure and compare performance changes of a vehicle. Includes flow testing the intake and exhaust, aerodynamics and acceleration. Get "DIY Testing of Car Modifications": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  Fast Car Physics (4.5 / 5)A great introduction to the world of vehicle dynamics, in language and explanations that are easy to understand. Learn basic vehicle physics, handling/dynamics, suspension types and geometry, and the latest approaches to green technologies for racing--energy recovery and storage. Get "Fast Car Physics": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics (R114) (4.5 / 5)For production road vehicles instead of pure race cars, this book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of vehicle dynamics. Understanding motion and vehicle effects is fundamental to developing good race cars and road vehicles and this book is considered one of the best introductory textbooks that balances usable theory and principles with additional mathematics. Get "Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics (R114)": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  High-Performance Handling for Street or Track: Vehicle dynamics, suspension mods & setup (4.5 / 5)Provides advice on planning modifications, installing components and tuning the handling characteristics of street vehicles. Includes an overview of vehicle dynamics and advice on selecting aftermarket components such as brakes, wheels, camber adjusters, anti-roll bars, springs, shocks and bushings. Also includes tire and wheel selection. Get "High-Performance Handling for Street or Track: Vehicle dynamics, suspension mods & setup": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  How to Make Your Car Handle (5 / 5)Teaches how to improve vehicle handling through suspension and chassis modifications and understanding vehicle dynamics. Includes basic suspension theory on roll centers, roll axis, camber change, bump steer, anti-dive, ride rate, ride balance as well practical chassis modifications. Get "How to Make Your Car Handle": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  Physics for Gearheads: An Introduction to Vehicle Dynamics, Energy, and Power - with Examples from Motorsports (5 / 5)Teaches the use of physics to understand and improve race car handling, dynamics and ultimately performance. Sections of the book cover kinematics, forces, dynamics, torque/force resolution and 2D vectors, energy, power and statics. Both SI/British engineering units are covered. Examples from racing are using to explain the physics principles. Get "Physics for Gearheads: An Introduction to Vehicle Dynamics, Energy, and Power - with Examples from Motorsports": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  Race Car Vehicle Dynamics (R146) (5 / 5)A comprehensive book on the vehicle dynamics of race cars (and applicable to road cars). Includes the most in-depth theoretical knowledge about vehicle handling, suspension and dynamics available in a single book. Along with clear explanations of principles there is a large mathematical component for engineering design. Can be used as a university textbook for vehicle engineering/Formula SAE/Student. Get "Race Car Vehicle Dynamics (R146)": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  Race Car Vehicle Dynamics: Problems, Answers and Experiments (5 / 5)Companion student workbook of problems, answers and experiments for readers of the Race Car Vehicle Dynamics book. Get "Race Car Vehicle Dynamics: Problems, Answers and Experiments": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  The Karting Manual: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Competitive Kart Racing (4.5 / 5)Provides an introduction to new kart racers. The Karting Manual includes driving techniques and general kart racing preparation. Get "The Karting Manual: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Competitive Kart Racing": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  The Racing & High-Performance Tire: Using Tires to Tune for Grip & Balance (R-351) (5 / 5)Provides comprehensive information on how tires work, their construction, manufacture and testing. The book also covers vehicle dynamics and the tire's contribution to them. Get "The Racing & High-Performance Tire: Using Tires to Tune for Grip & Balance (R-351)": | |||
| Vehicle Dynamics/Handling |  Tune to Win: The art and science of race car development and tuning (5 / 5)The fundamentals of race car vehicle dynamics in a clear, well-written text. Explains suspension, weight dynamics and vehicle handling behaviours in a way that permits the designer to understand cause and effect and improve their race car design, vehicle tuning and even driving. Get "Tune to Win: The art and science of race car development and tuning": |
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