ASME International
Sixth Annual Symposium on "Advanced Vehicle Technologies"
The International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
November 14-19, 2004, Anaheim, CA, USA
The Vehicle Design Committee of the ASME Engineering Design Division is organizing a symposium entitled "Advanced Vehicle Technologies" to be held during The International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition on November 14-19, 2004, Anaheim, CA, USA. Papers are invited on innovative analytical, computational, and experimental investigations in control, dynamics, and design of full vehicle systems and their sub-assemblies. Papers may address fundamental research, applied research, or successful implementations relating to light or heavy vehicle design and development. Six sessions will be organized as follows:
Topics include optimal, reliable, and robust design of vehicles and their systems and subsystems, design of integrated (mechatronics) systems, and engineering applications referring to vehicle design.
| Session 1 Chair: | Professor Massimiliano GOBBI Department of Mechanical Engineering Politecnico di Milano (Technical University) Via La Masa, 34 20158 Milan, ITALY Tel +39 02 2399 8214, Fax +39 02 2399 8202 E-mail: massimiliano.gobbi@polimi.it |
Papers in the area of product development, as it applies to the automotive industry, are solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to, design target setting, business case analysis, reliability and maintenance issues, cost models, impact analysis of novel and advanced technologies, market uncertainty and demand modeling.
| Session 2 Chair: | Dr. Michael Kokkolaras Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Michigan 2350 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125 Tel (734) 615-8991, Fax (734) 647-8403 E-mail mk@umich.edu |
Many vehicle design tools such as finite element programs, lighting design programs, and driving simulators can also be used to determine what happened in failures and accidents and how the performance of the drivers and vehicles involved compare to norms. These design tools can also be used to design safety enhancements for both vehicles and roadways that reduce the probability of accidents. Topics will include determining vehicle speeds and orientations at impact, determining accelerations experienced in impacts, using finite elements to study the validity and accuracy of crush-based accident analysis, the design of seats that protect occupants in impacts, design of structures that protect occupants in impacts, visibility enhancement means, perception reaction studies (especially those that look at driver perception reactions in complex situations), automatic systems for reducing the probability of accidents (such as systems for detecting dangers of roll-overs and dangers of collisions with vehicles ahead), improved trailer hitches and other means for improving the stability of trailers, and general means for improving crashworthiness of vehicles.
| Session 3 Chair: | Dr. Scott Kimbrough President MRA Forensic Sciences 321 West 6100 S., UT 84107, U.S.A. Tel (801) 263-1992, Fax (801) 261-2799 E-mail: motionresearch@integraonline.com |
Topics will include analytical prediction techniques that enable a quicker time to market. Some example topics include tire mechanics and modeling using advanced techniques, including FEA and Artificial Neural Networks applications to vehicle modeling, visualization techniques, and virtual prototyping using advanced techniques.
| Session 4 Chair: | Dr. Moustafa El-Gindy Director, Vehicle Simulation Research Center Pennsylvania Transportation Institute The Pennsylvania State University 201 Transportation Research Building University Park, PA 16802, USA Tel (814) 863-7930, Fax (814) 865-3039 E-mail:mxe15@psu.edu |
Papers in the general area of Dynamics and Controls applications to vehicle systems are welcome. Topics include integrated design of the tire-suspension system of race cars, modeling, analysis, and experimental testing of ABS systems with load shifting, an optimum design approach using active and semi-active suspension for 3-D vehicle models, rollover intelligent rollover warning systems, and active yaw control systems for road and off-road vehicles.
| Session 5 Chair: | Professor Imtiaz Haque Department of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering & Science Clemson University 102 Floor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building Clemson, SC 29634-0921, USA. Tel (864) 656-5628, Fax (864) 656-4435 E-mail: imtiaz.haque@ces.clemson.edu |
Topics include new equipment and new methodologies developed
for testing vehicles and vehicle systems, such as suspension,
propulsion, tires, etc. Papers describing testing protocols,
data collection, analysis, and interpretation, as well as
applications of test results in design of vehicle systems are
welcome.
| Session 6 Chair: | Professor Bohdan Kulakowski Pennsylvania Transportation Institute The Pennsylvania State University 201 Transportation Research Building University Park, PA 16802, USA Tel (814) 863-1893, Fax (814) 865-3039 E-mail: BTK1@psu.edu |
Interested authors from academic and government institutions and the automotive industry are requested to submit abstracts of up-to 500 words by January 31, 2004. Note that abstracts (and papers) will be submitted online through the ASME Web Site. The sessions' chairs will notify the authors of the acceptance of their abstracts by February 9, 2004. Full papers to be submitted for review are due by March 29, 2004. Reviews will be available on July 26, 2004, and final manuscripts will be due on August 30, 2004.
All papers will be subjected to extensive review and the best paper will be selected; the authors of the best paper will receive the Best Paper Award at the opening of the 6th Advanced Vehicle Technologies Symposium at the ASME Congress in November 14-19, 2004, Anaheim, CA