MAK 457 - Power Transmission in Vehicles

Course Objectives

To give information to the students on constructive structures dimensioning and functions of; drive train elements of road vehicles starting from the engine to the wheel.

Course Description

General aspects of vehicle design, matching of internal combustion engine and vehicle, power-train applications and specifications of elements, clutch construction and types, gearbox construction and types, planet mechanisms, hydrodynamic torque converters and semi automatic and full automatic gearboxes, axle drive and differential.