Design and Analysis of Composite Structures for Automotive Applications

Index

• a
• absolute lowest mass
  • stress at solid length  230
• angle
  • definitions  162
  • chamber  160
  • toe‐in  160
• anisotropic creep constant
  • shear strain  321
  • uniaxial strain  321

• b
• bending optimization  121

• c
• camber change
  • due to flexibility of rear axis  187
• car body
  • bending stiffness  183
  • dive  183
  • lateral stiffness  183
  • local stiffness  183
  • squat behavior  183
  • twist stiffness  183
• Castigliano's method  225
• compliance steer angle  185
• composite material
  • effective modules  8
  • engineering constants  8
  • non‐woven fabric  334
  • unidirectional  334
  • volume fractions  7
• composite twisted driveshaft
  • Greenhill's problem  141
  • torsional buckling  141
• conical composite spring  236
  • anisotropic shell equations  236
  • axial force  239
  • circumferential elastic modulus  238
  • circumferential moment  238
  • deformed state  235
  • effective circumferential elastic modulus, orthotropic  242
  • extesional and flexural energies  238
  • free state  232
  • optimization of stored energy  239
  • optimizazion of orthotropic spring  241
  • optimization, orthotropic  243
  • spring force, orthotropic  243
  • variational principle  237
• constitutive law for laminates
  • anisotropic laminate with coupling  17
  • anisotropic laminate without coupling  17
  • Kelvin's notation  15
  • orthotropic laminate without coupling  17
  • Voigt's notation  14
• coordinate system
  • earth fixed  161
  • horizontal  162
  • local  161
  • vehicle  161
  • vehicle fixed  162
  • wheel  162
• cornering, rollover and suspension isolation  167
• coupling constant
  • roll angle to steer angle  195