Automotive Mechanical Basics

Author: Zhu Xiulin, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is organized and compiled in close accordance with the national Ministry of Education's two-year higher vocational education training program for skilled personnel in automotive application and maintenance, specifically addressing the professional needs of the automotive application and maintenance field. The book is divided into six parts: Mechanical Drawing, Interchangeability and Technical Measurement, Automotive Engineering Materials, Analysis of Automotive Mechanisms, Strength Calculation of Common Automotive Transmission Mechanisms and Parts, and Hydraulic Transmission. The book provides detailed introductions to the basic knowledge of mechanical drawing, projection drawing methods, reading of part drawings and assembly drawings, and the recognition of common automotive parts and structures; dimension tolerance and fit, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), surface roughness, and fundamentals of testing technology; the properties and heat treatment methods of engineering materials, as well as the common metallic and non-metallic materials used in automobiles; the statics, kinematics, and dynamics knowledge applied in automobiles; the working principles, force and motion analysis of common mechanical and automotive mechanisms; the basic components, basic circuits, and typical automotive hydraulic systems of hydraulic transmission. This book can serve as a technical foundation course textbook for two-year vocational colleges in automotive application and maintenance, as well as a training textbook and technical reference for automotive professionals.