• Motor Vehicles, Semester 2, position 2

Course objective is to provide an understanding and develop students’ skills and knowledge in the area of design, development, and maintenance process of the friction based vehicle systems such as clutch, braking systems, and their friction materials.

Course outcomes are development of student’s abilities to: a) understand requirements being imposed to automotive vehicle systems, b) be able to design, calculate and testing of the motor vehicles braking systems, c) be able to design, calculate and testing of the vehicle main clutches, d) be able to understand and design the automotive brakes and clutches friction material characteristics, e) be able to maintain the friction based vehicle systems.

Theoretical lectures are divided into 7 sections: 1) Introduction – Friction based vehicle systems. 2) Clutch – design, calculation and testing. 3) Braking systems- Introduction 4) Characteristics of vehicle braking systems 5) Design and calculation of vehicle braking systems 6) Characteristics of clucth and brake friction materials. 7) Maintenance of clutch and braking systems- Introduction.

Students carry an engineering project. Project is related to the following tasks: 1) Calculation of the main friction clutch. 2) Calculation of a passenger car braking system. 3) Calculation of a braking system with the pneumatic transmission. 4) Calculation of a braking system with the air over hydraulic transmission. 5) Calculation of trailer/semi-trailer braking system.

There is no precondition.

1. D. Aleksendrić, Hand-outs, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade, 2024.

Total assigned hours: 75

New material: 20
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 10

Auditory exercises: 15
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 15
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 0
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 0
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 5
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 0
Review and grading of the project: 0
Test: 5
Test: 0
Final exam: 5

Activity during lectures: 10
Test/test: 40
Laboratory practice: 0
Calculation tasks: 20
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 0
Final exam: 30
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 30

Savaresi S., Taneli M. Active Braking Control Systems Design for Vehicles, Springer 2010. ISBN 978-1-84996-349-7; Aleksendric D., Carlone P. Soft Computing in the design and manufacturing of composite materials, Elsevier-Woodhead Publishing, 2015. ISBN: 9781782421795; J. Todorović, Braking of motor vehicles, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade, 1989. ISBN 86-17-00337-5.