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Chassis Design

Principles and Analysis

AUTHOR(S): William F. Milliken, Douglas L. Milliken

Chassis Design: Principles and Analysis is based on Olley's technical writings, and is the first complete presentation of his life and work. This new book provides insight into the development of chassis technology and its practical application by a master. Many examples are worked out in the text and the analytical developments are grounded by Olley's years of design experience.

Well-illustrated with over 400 figures and tables, as well as numerous appendices.

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Published By: SAE International

Published: February 2002

Pages: 676

Binding: Hardbound

Product Code: R-206

Product Status: Available

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William F. Milliken

Bill Milliken studied mechanical engineering at the University of Maine, and received a B. S in mathematics/aeronautical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1934. He also took private pilot training at the Boeing School of Aeronautics. He was successively employed at MIT, Chance Vought, Vought-Silcorsky, Boeing Aircraft, Avion/Northrup, Curtiss-Wright, and CAL/Calspan- 20 years in aircraft stability and control/flight tests, including pioneering work in stability augmentation and variable stability. Since then he has been involved with automotive stability and control, first at CAL/Calspan and then at Milliken Research Associates, Inc. (MRA), the company he founded in 1976 to continue this work. He designed, built and crashed his own airplane and has competed in more than 100 post-war road races and hill climbs.

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Douglas L. Milliken

Doug Milliken grew up in the heady atmosphere of basic vehicle stability and control research at CAL/ Caispan, first in the flight hangar and later with ground vehicle activity. During the same period he attended numerous motor races including time in the pits and garage with the Formula One teams at Watkins Glen and work with a Trans-Am race team (2.5 liter). He received a B. S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 and joined Milliken Research Associates (MRA) shortly thereafter. Projects at MRA include mechanical design and fabrication of prototypes and instrumentation; and test and development work including planning, design, driving and data analysis. He has experience with a wide range of vehicles including bicycles, record-breaking streamlined human powered vehicles, motorcycles, production and race cars, active control cars, automotive simulators and trucks of various sizes. He currently manages the vehicle dynamics and analysis activity at MRA.

"For the Rolls-Royce or Bentley enthusiast this important book has a very special place, for the vast majority of the material has been taken directly from the previously unpublished writings of Maurice Olley... We owe the authors of this... book a great debt of gratitude that finally, after more than thirty years under wraps, the Olley monographs have been released, and permission granted for their publication... It is a true look into the world of automotive suspension design and despite the enormous body of data presented, the book is honest in its conclusion that even with all that has become understood and quantified, the subject remains probably the most complex field in automotive engineering... This work not only looks like a textbook, but one would expect that it will indeed be adopted for exactly that purpose. Any new student of automotive chassis design would do well to start his or her education with an appreciation and understanding of how suspension systems have reached their present development and I cannot imagine a better source than this single book... One cannot come away from this book without gaining a greater appreciation of this complex subject. You will also come to have a great respect for Maurice Olley, one of the original pioneers in chassis design, and for the Millikens who carry on that tradition today (for more on the work of Milliken Research Associates go to http://www.millikenresearch.com... I, for one, have already decided to also order a copy of their SAE best-seller Race Car Vehicle Dynamics."

-James Pate, Rolls-Royce Owners Club USA

You may think Ferdinand Porsche invented oversteer, but I mean the concept, not the action. It was Maurice Olley, a giant of 20th-century engineering who made technical sense of this idea and a great many others in vehicle dynamics. Celebrating Olley’s technical prowess here amidst these GM concept cars is appropriate, as many of his engineering achievements came during his tenure at General Motors, 1930-1957... This book is based on technical notes that Olley composed in that GM office during his Chevy R&D “retirement.” These notes and more than 400 of Olley’s technical figures and tables are augmented by Milliken commentary; the latter, setting the stage here, amplifying there, always in italics so you come to appreciate the amazing breadth and depth of Olley’s work... This is a technical treatise, one that will likely find use in graduate engineering courses... It’s a 637-page seminar taught by a great automotive mind of the 20th century. And sitting next to you are two knowledgeable, helpful and articulate pals..

--Road & Track

"Chassis Design - Principles and Analysis" contains over six hundred pages, and covers all aspects of vehicle suspension, ride and handling. As a textbook, it develops the subject matter from first principles, supported by a vast number of easily understood diagrams; the authors have also added their own explanatory notes in places to clarify some aspects and to aid understanding. Those of us for whom school is but a distant memory may prefer to skip through much of the mathematics, but the erudite manner in which Olley discusses the conclusions drawn from his theoretical and practical work makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in how and why motor cars behave in the way that they do. Any young engineer starting work in this field, with arrays of computer aided design and data acquisition packages at his disposal, would be well advised to first study the contents of this book, to obtain a tangible feel for the subject and to help to avoid some of the "rubbish in - rubbish out" pitfalls of the electronic age.

--Brian Shilton

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