Automobile Chassis and Body Engineering
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Automobile Chassis and Body Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Automobile Chassis and Body Engineering (subject code 3160211) as prescribed for Auto · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 55 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3160211)Unit 1 Automobile Chassis
- Layout with reference to Power Plant Location and Drive
- Automotive Frames - Material Selection and its Constructional Details
- Various types
- Different Loads acting on Frame
- Testing of Automotive Frames
Unit 2 Car Body
- Classification of vehicle based on body types
- Types of car bodies
- Integral body construction details: Requirements of body
- Loads on the vehicle body: Static load
- Acceleration and Braking
- Moments and Torque due to driving conditions (torsion and bending moments)
- Types of materials used in body construction
- Analysis and Selection of body member sections
- Body sub frame and underfloor structure
- car front and rear end structure
- Vehicle Structure Analysis by Simple Structural Surface (SSS) Method: Saloon and simple van
- Crashworthiness: features and requirements for occupant protections
- crumple zones
- Description of Body zones/assemblies/components
- Body trims
- transmission and body structure mounting
Unit 3 Bus Body and Commercial Vehicle body
- Classification of bus bodies – Based on distance travelled
- Based on capacity of the bus and based on style & shape
- Types of metal section used in the construction and regulations
- Construction of conventional and integral type buses and comparison
- Classification of commercial vehicle bodies
- Construction of Tanker body and Tipper body
- Driver cabin design for compactness Design of frames for bus and commercial vehicles. 12 Subject Code:3160211 wef AY 2018-19
Unit 4 Vehicle Aerodynamics
- External and Internal flow problems
- Performance of cars and light vans
- Resistance to vehicle motion
- Types of drag
- Flow field around car, Aerodynamic development of cars
- Optimization of car bodies for low drag
Unit 5 Ergonomic and Safety
- Introduction of ergonomics
- anthropometric dimensions of standard occupant
- Concept of H-point referencing
- interior design for ergonomics and comfort
- seat design for ride comfort
- suspension seats
- split frame seating
- back passion reducers
- dash board instruments
- pedal controls and electronic displays
- Driver seat design of bus body and commercial vehicle body
- Safety aspects in design
- Types of safety (Active and Passive)
- Safety features: overview of requirement for occupant protection (frontal
- rear and rollover impact) and pedestrian safety
- Airbags and Seatbelts
- Visibility: Regulation
- Driver's visibility
- Methods of improving visibility
- Introduction of crash test
- Chassis and body alignment test
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