Author: Lorenzo Morello; Lorenzo Rosti Rossini; Giuseppe Pia; Andrea Tonoli

The Automotive Body consists of two volumes.

The first volume produces the needful cultural background on the body; it
describes the body and its components in use on most kinds of cars and
industrial vehicles: the quantity of drawings that are presented allows the
reader to familiarize with the design features and to understand functions,
design motivations and fabrication feasibility, in view of the existing
production processes.

The second volume addresses the body system engineer and has the objective
to lead him to the specification definition used to finalize detail design
and production by the car manufacturer or the supply chain. The processing
of these specifications, made by mathematical models of different
complexity, starts always from the presentations of the needs of the
customer using the vehicle and from the large number of rules imposed by
laws and customs.

The two volumes are completed by references, list of symbols adopted and
subjects index.

These two books about the vehicle body may be added to those about the
chassis and are part
of a series sponsored by ATA (the Italian automotive engineers association)
on the subject of
automotive engineering; they follow the first book, published in 2005 in
Italian only, about
automotive transmission. They cover automotive engineering from every
aspect and are the
result of a five-year collaboration between the Polytechnical University
of Turin and the University of Naples on automotive engineering.

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