73096 - Internal Combustion Engine Laboratory

Learning outcomes

The student understands how an engine test cell operates, starting from the characteristics of its main components (dynamometer or brake, control system, engine characteristics), and learns the various modes of engine test bench operation, ranging from fully manual to a fully automated test management system.

Course contents

Testing of Powertrains on the Test Bench: Objectives, Measured Quantities, and Their Applications.

Instrumentation and Sensors Used in the Test Cell.

Description of Test Bench Procedures.

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

Motori endotermici alternativi, Giorgio Minelli, Pitagora, Pitagora esami, 1984, EAN: 9788837102951, ISBN: 883710295X

Motori a combustione interna, Giancarlo Ferrari, Esculapio, Edizione: 2, 1 gennaio 2016, EAN: 9788874889716, ISBN: 8874889712 Pagine: 688

Internal combustion engine fundamentals Autore John B. Heywood, McGraw-Hill Education, 2018, ISBN 9781260116106

Teaching methods

The course uses three teaching tools:

• Classroom activities (Lectures)
• Laboratory visits
• Matalb/Simulink exercises

Assessment methods

Oral exam in which the students will comprehensively and analically describe two topics explained during the course.

Teaching tools

Powerpoint presentations, datasheets and Manuals, Matlab/Simulink scripts shared during the course.

Office hours

See the website of Giacomo Silvagni