- Docente: Alessandro Brusa
- Credits: 3
- SSD: ING-IND/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0949)
Learning outcomes
The student learns how an engine test room works, starting from the characteristics of the main components (brake or dynamo/ brake, management system, engine characteristics) and the different ways of using the engine test bench, from the completely manual one to an automated test management system.
Course contents
Test of the engine on the bench: objectives, sensed quantities and their use. Instrumentation used in the test cell. Components for carrying out tests. Bench test. Data analysis.
Readings/Bibliography
Engine testing : the design, building, modification and use of powertrain test facilities, Michael Plint and Anthony Martyr, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford 2012.
Powertrain instrumentation and test systems : development - hybridization - electrification / Michael Paulweber, Klaus Lebert
Wiesbaden : Springer, 2015
Teaching methods
The course uses three teaching tools:
- Lectures (illustration of Power Point material: the presentations are accessible through the platform for sharing the teaching material)
- Laboratory visits (description of plants, instruments and performance of an engine test)
- Computer lab (detailed description of procedures in Matlab for the analysis of experimental data)
Assessment methods
Oral verification of the learned knowledge: the student will have to answer by showing diagrams / equations related to topics of the program. The student must be able to describe the procedures seen in class, demonstrating knowledge of the data and commands used. The duration of the exam is about half an hour. In detail, the knowledge regarding the following topics will be verified: - structure of the engine test room: information on transducers and systems. - engine testing methods: methods of carrying out the tests. - detailed analysis of a procedure for data analysis. The exam does not include a grade, but only a suitability. The exam program is available at the end of the course on the platform for sharing teaching material. The student can register from 10 to 5 days before the exam. To carry out the exam it is necessary to present an identity document.
Teaching tools
PowerPoint presentations and data to be analyzed in the Matlab environment, through shared procedures: all the material is available, after the registration to the distribution list, on the platform for sharing the teaching material.
Office hours
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