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Engine Testing is a unique, well-organized and comprehensive collection of the different aspects of engine and vehicle testing equipment and infrastructure for anyone involved in facility design and management, physical testing and the maintenance, upgrading and trouble shooting of testing equipment. Designed so that its chapters can all stand alone to be read in sequence or out of order as needed, Engine Testing is also an ideal resource for automotive engineers required to perform testing functions whose jobs do not involve engine testing on a regular basis. This recognized standard reference for the subject is now enhanced with new chapters on hybrid testing, OBD (on-board diagnostics) and sensor signals from modern engines.
List of contents
1. Introduction
2. Test facility specification, system integration, and project organisation
3. Quality and H&S legislation and management, type approval, test correlation and reporting of results
4. The Test Cell as a Thermodynamic System
5. Powertrain test facility design and construction
6. Electrical design requirements of Test Facilities
7. Ventilation and air conditioning in powertrain test facilities
8. Test cell cooling water and exhaust gas systems
9. Fuel and oil storage, supply & treatment
10. Vibration and noise
11. Dynamometers: the measurement of torque, speed and power
12. Rigging the Engine and shaft selection
13. Test cell safety, control, and data acquisition
14. Data handling, the use of modeling and post-test processing
15. Measurement of fuel, combustion air, and oil consumption
16. The Combustion process and combustion analysis
17. Engine exhaust emissions
18. Chassis or rolling road dynamometers Anechoic test cells; NVH & EMC testing
19. The pursuit and definition of accuracy
20. Tribology, Fuel and Lubrication testing
21. Appendix
About the author
A.J. Martyr has held senior technical positions with several of the major test plant manufacturers and consultancy firms over the last 40 years. He is now Honorary Visiting Professor of Powertrain Engineering at Bradford University.
Summary
Suitable for those involved in facility design and management, physical testing and the maintenance, upgrading and trouble shooting of testing equipment, this title collects the different aspects of engine and vehicle testing equipment and infrastructure.
