Mercedes AMG F1 Car

The first pictures of 2012 Mercedes AMG F1 Car Launch - Click to & Enlarge pics

 

HOW A F1 CAR WORKS

F1 Motor car Engine at its Technology

This season are the most efficient engines with most advanced technology and techniques.

Engime: Specification of the Motot car are 2.4 Litre V8 engine, weighting no less than 95 kg and rev limit of 18,000 RPM. F1 engine produces around 720 bhp and manages 130 kms per 100 litres.

Steering: This year steering wheel has two extra buttons, the DRS button to adjust the rear wing and one for KERS- which is particularly complicated , the drivers can adjust the amount of energy released at various points around the circuit..

Diffuser : It controls the amount of down force a car generate.

Rear Wing:  This season the rare wing is driver adjustable.  A button on the upper rear flap, creating a 50 mm gap, which reduces drag and provides of top speed boost of almost 15 kph.


Brakes: The carbon -fibre discs have exceptional performance. They can reach more 1000 degrees celsius under full retardation.

7 Typres : For every race a driver get two compounds, the prime and the option. Each driver ges 11 sets of typres for the race weekend..

 Front wing : The front wing influences the  air flow over and under the car , it was concurred that  a stable front wings will reduce the effect of the wake.

Car Basics, Jargon for buying Car n. Cars Terminology

Car is almost a necessity in US…At some point of you stay in US, you may plan to buy one either new or used. We never owned a car in India and I am not into cars at all. All the car jargon and terminology is like Greek and Latin to me. I do not understand a thing. After I came to US, I found myself in a kind of bad situation because of lack of basic knowledge of cars. I am sure some of you would be in same situation I was few years ago. Let me share with you some basic terms that you need to know about cars and why they are important for buying a used car.


Basic Car terminology :

I will try to write my version of the meaning, it is not technical by any means…if you are into cars and not happy with my explanation, feel free to add a comment correcting the same. I am not going to write everything, just those that I felt were new for someone naïve like me.

Sedan : It is nothing but a car with Four doors

Coupe : Car with two doors(no back doors). Also called Sports model or sports car version.

Convertible : Car with a foldable roof or top (automatic)

SUV : SUV means Sports Utility vehicle, it is a class of vehicles… It is bigger than car and has more power and looks like a Jeep, but not. ( It is like SUMO in India)

V6 or V4 : It refers to the number of cylinders in the engine. V6 means 6 cylinder, V4 means 4 cylinder.  V6 has more power or acceleration than V4, it drinks a lot of gasoline

Moon roof : Aerial window on top of driver and front passenger with Glass

Sun roof : Aerial window on top of driver and front passenger with a door(NOT glass, just shutter). The difference between sun and moon roof is, if you have just sun roof, you cannot see outside moon through glass as the door is opaque. If there is a shutter and glass then it is both sun roof and moon roof. Nowadays most of the cars are sun and moon roof.

Timing belt: This is something that is part of engine and controls the timing of valves. It is very important to have this replaced after certain thousands of miles. Especially when you are buying a used car, you have to ask if the previous owner has replaced the timing belt at particular mileage. This will cost you some good amount of money, so  you have to ask before you buy. Also, it is important for the engine and car to function well.

Brake Rotors: These are the discs in the disc brake system. They wear off after certain miles and they are key for stopping the vehicle when you brake. They are very expensive. Make sure they are in good condition; it has to be of certain width. You do not want to change them as it will cost money.

Brake Pads : Brake pads wear off, you can change them…Brake rotors are key. If the rotors are good, you can change the brake pads

Muffler : It is the exhaust pipe system all the way through where the smoke exits. It also wears off and should be changed after some time in used vehicles. It also costs good amount of money, Make sure there are no issues with Muffler when you buy.

Transmission: It is the gear box that provide speed and torque conversions from rotating source.

Manual Transmission : Manual means, you have change gears manually using your hands and clutch(something that you press when you change gear).

Automatic Transmission : There is no clutch and you do not need to change gears. You just put the car in Drive, it automatically changes gears. You just push the accelerator. You only change gear if you want to go reverse or when going up very steep hill (not very common, I never had to do this in past 6 years)

Coolant: A liquid that is filled in Radiator instead of water. You may have seen people pouring water in your home country, nothing here…it is a liquid and you do not change it often.

Other things related to Car

Jumper Cables : This is not part of car, but just putting it here…If the car battery dies, then you use cables to connect your car battery with another car battery to start your car. These cables are called jumper cables. It is very essential to have the jumper cables in used car.

No Tire tube: There are no tubes in the Car’s tires in US. If you have a flat tire, you either patch it or throw it. There is nothing like you change the tube inside and keep the tire…you just replace the tire…

Tool Box: Make sure you carry a tool box in your car. It is not very expensive, good to have one handy.

Can you think of any other Car terms that might be important to know ?

INTRESTING FACTS ABOUT F1 CARS

FI CARS

We know that F1 is a very expensive sport and parts of its expensive cost would be the cost of its cars. Shown on the pics above are some of the interesting facts that we masses probably don’t know the actual cost incurred in an F1 car.

This cost was based on the Ferrari 2009 models and the most expensive item in F1 cars would be the lightweight material (carbon fiber) that they use in order to achieve the lightweight magic and also KM long cables of harness use to connect to 100 sensors and actuators.

Another interesting fact is the cost of the steering wheel which would cost $38,117 where it can control up to 120 different functions from its 23 dials and button. We have seen on the previous post about how complex the F1 steering. If you have not seen the video, please head down to this link. Enjoy the pics above :)

mechanical-engineering-scope-career-prospects-demand: HOW A F1 CAR WORKS

mechanical-engineering-scope-career-prospects-demand: HOW A F1 CAR WORKS

HOW A F1 CAR WORKS

Can I design cars with a mechanical engineering degree?

Can I design cars with a mechanical engineering degree?




Engineering is NOT "Design" in the sense we are discussing on this website. These are separate fields. Engineering deals with the relationships between things. Design deals with the relationships between things and human beings - quite a difference. 
Some engineers are called "designers" but when we are talking about Industrial Design/Automotive Design/Styling (the last word is not my favorite term), then "design" is something else.
There is no doubt that engineering understanding would be helpful in informing a car designer about what he is doing but a standard engineering course of study is not a necessary or useful thing.
In terms of the initial question: the manufacturers hiring "designers" are NOT looking at engineering graduates.
On the other hand, one's chances of getting into an engineering field are infinitely better than getting hired as a car designer at an automotive studio.


To all the "mechanical engineers" out there: HAVING A DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING WILL NOT GET YOU A JOB AS A CAR DESIGNER. YOU WILL HAVE TO DO A 4YEAR COURSE IN TRANSPORTATION DESIGN OR INDUSTRIAL DESIGN TO BE CONSIDERED- SIMPLE AS THAT!
However, with an engineering degree in the automotive industry, your position will be to simply TRANSLATE a car designer's vision from paper to practical reality. YOU ARE NOT A DESIGNER.

What are benefits of studying Mechanical Engineering?

What are advantages of doing Mechanical Engineering? Why should I choose to do Mechanical Engineering? Please tell me about the features of Mechanical Engineering. 


I want to do Mechanical Engineering abroad so I want to know about benefits of studying Mechanical Engineering. Thanks.






Mechanical Engineering is one of the popular Engineering programmes. Studying Mechanical Engineering has severalbenefits which I’ll try to explain.

Mechanical Engineering is about design, development, manufacture, maintenance of mechanical items. Mechanical Engineers have wide range of career prospects. They can work at transport, health, defence, manufacture, and any related field. Limited number of Mechanical Engineers worldwide provides Mechanical Engineers good earning opportunity. StudyingMechanical Engineering will allow you to work in the field which helps enhance day to day life of human being. You’ll be dealing with mechanics either that be developing engines or robots.

By getting involved into mechanical engineering, you’ll be contributing world with your innovative ideas which will make world even better place to live.

Why Mechanical Engineering?

Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest and oldest branches of engineering.  Mechanical engineers are involved with the design, analysis, testing, manufacturing, control, operation, and maintenance of mechanical systems - that is, any system that has a moving part!   Mechanical systems can vary greatly in complexity and magnitude from the valve in an artificial heart to a car engine to a mammoth nuclear power plant.  It deals with all aspects of the conversion of thermal energy into useful work and the machines that make this possible.

This seems awfully broad, right?  Although that is one of the great advantages to mechanical engineering (and why the world always needs mechanical engineers!) our students do earn a concentration during their senior year.  Concentrations give you the chance to specialize in one area of mechanical engineering.  You can choose to take elective courses all related to your concentration, or choose a few outside your concentration to maintain a slightly broader background - your choice! 

 We offer concentrations in:

Applied Mechanics
Automotive Engineering
Biomechanical Systems
Design and Manufacturing
Dynamics, Vibrations, and Controls
Energy Systems
Nuclear Engineering

Has mechanical engineering caught your interest?
Then perhaps you should consider our advanced technical elective track, if you're interested in:

• Completing research as an undergraduate
• Preparing for graduate school
• Graduating "With Distinction in Mechanical Engineering?"

Mechanical engineering honors students or students who are pursuing the BS/MS option may work with a faculty advisor to choose their areas of research and study to reflect their interests and the scope of their future graduate work.

Applied Mechanics
Applied Mechanics is the theoretical, numerical, and experimental study of the response of solids and fluids to external forces. Students who concentrate in this area can take courses in finite element analysis, fracture mechanics, advanced strength of materials, and system vibrations. It's the concentration for you, if you're interested in:

• Understanding the forces in structural components such as a truss or crane
• Smaller scale components such as a prosthetic joints
• Understanding why and how objects break, and how to prevent failure

Automotive Engineering
A concentration in Automotive Engineering will prepare you for work in the automotive industry, one of the traditional branches of mechanical engineering which remains of great importance. It is concerned with the design and operation of all kinds of engines and vehicle dynamics, and is rapidly expanding to include the research, design, and testing of alternative energy sources for vehicles. Students who pursue this concentration can take courses in land vehicle dynamics, powertrain dynamics, the study of internal combustion engines, modeling of hybrid-electric vehicles, and fuel cell systems. It's the concentration for you, if you're interested in:

• Understanding the operation of an internal combustion engine, and making it efficient
• Hybrid electric vehicles
• Fuel cell systems
• Automobile dynamics

Biomechanical Systems Biomechanics is the science that examines forces acting upon and within a biological structure and the effects produced by such forces. A concentration in Biomechanical Systems prepares students for work in the medical industry or in any other area where their is a need to study the effects of forces on the human body. It's the concentration for you, if you're interested in:

• Understanding the mechanical functions of muscles, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and bones
• Physical disabilities, and how to design products to help people with disabilities
• Understanding how different injury mechanisms (impact, sport, trauma) affect the human body
• The design of medical devices

Design and Manufacturing
A concentration in Design & Manufacturing is appropriate for students who are interested in the design, testing, and manufacturing of consumer products. Students in this concentration can take courses in product design, tool engineering, machine tool control and programming, and rapid prototyping. It's the concentration for you, if you're interested in:

• Designing and prototyping new products
• Learning to program CNC machines
• Robotics
• Using computer graphics to model new products and systems

Dynamics, Vibrations, and Controls
A concentration in Dynamics, Vibrations, and Controls prepares students to understand various system components and how they interact as parts of a mechanical system. Students in this concentration can take courses in control systems design, mechatronics, fracture mechanics, and engineering acoustics. It's the concentration for you, if you're interested in:

• Learning how mechanical, electrical, thermal, and fluid systems work together
• Controlling these systems and preventing unwanted ysstem vibrations and noise

Energy Systems
The study of Energy Systems concentrates on the production of useful energy from raw materials (i.e. electricity from coal) as well as the process of transforming energy into useful work (i.e. electricity driving a motor), and the optimization of these processes. Students who concentrate their studies in Energy Systems can take courses in turbomachinery, HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning), combustion and jet propulsion. It's the concentration for you, if you're interested in:

• Learning to efficiently harness energy from raw materials
• Learning how to efficiently heat, ventilate, and cool structures
• The uses of turbomachinery

Nuclear Engineering
The field of Nuclear Engineering is experiencing a resurgence as we investigate the option of nuclear power as an alternative to our society's dependence on fossil fuels. Students who concentrate in this area take an introductory course in nuclear science and engineering, and can take courses in reactor theory, nuclear power plants, and radiological safety, as well as reliability engineering. It's the concentration for you, if you're interested in:

• Helping to develop nuclear energy as a safe and affordable alternative to fossil fuels
• Studying how nuclear power plants affect their surrounding environments
• The possible uses of radiation in medicine
• Using radiation to make measurements

Why Mechanical Engineering?

Mechanical Engineering is one of the most exciting and rewarding professions, and influences most aspects of our everyday life. Machines and mechanisms are central to our traditional engineering industries, and an understanding of their nature continues to be essential for all Engineers. However, these fundamental mechanical skills are increasingly being extended to cover growth areas such as precision engineering, nanotechnology and mechatronics. These depend on the subtle combining of existing mechanical techniques with methods originating in areas such as electronics, computing and biology. The diversity of Mechanical Engineering leads to a wide range of careers for graduates. Typical destinations range from research and development positions within industrial or academic establishments, to design and manufacturing posts. The projects and products on which graduates work are also varied, encompassing everything from shuttlecocks to space shuttles.

What are the options of part time job while pursuing b.tech?

Yes,it is possible to do part time jobs while pursuing B.TECH.If you think lot of part time opportunities are there.But you have to concentrate on studies because you don't get any time while working.The part time jobs are

1.work in any retailer shops at evening times.

2.If you are in city go for call centre jobs in weekends.

3.work in any online job like theexamresults websites.

My SUGGESTION is don't go for part time jobs you will get tied and you won't get time to study.

You can do call center jobs for 3-4 hours and data entry jobs like
captcha typing
SEO jobs
Working in any mobile shop or in any internet shop
Data entry
Form filling jobs etc
In news papers you can find part time jobs.
Better to go for jobs at out side not in online.
Due to this you can improve your skills.
there are lots of chances for part time few of them given below :

COMPUTER BASED JOBS:

- DATA ENTRY 

- DTP 

- IF YOU KNOW PHOTOSHOP YOU CAN 
DO SIMPLE WORKS IN PHOTO STUDIO

- CALL CENTERS 
etc.........

ACCOUNTS JOBS :

- YOU CAN WORK IN BANKS 

- YOU CAN DO SOME SMALL AND SIMPLE 
CALCULATIONS IN COMPANIES 

- THERE ARE MANY SHOPS HAVING THE TALLY 
SOFTWARE TO CALCULATE THE INCOME AND LOSSES 
IF YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN WORK .

In all the examples are few things there are lots of 
opportunity are there.

so , you can work for all the fields at the same time you must 
concentrate on you studies also its very important one . then only your
goal will be achive .

my personal suggestion is ...........try to do private tutions....it will be boost for your own studies also!!!!!! 

Core Companies for Mechanical engineers

Dear Friend,


Don't think about the job as you are a student of an evergreen as well as a core branch i.e.,Mechanical stream.


there are so many chances in Govt. as well as private companies.


There huge number of er.Core Companies for Mechanical engineers
some of them are:


1:Hindustan Motors Ltd 
2:Hyundai Motors India Ltd 
3:Mahindra & Mahindra
4:Royal Enfield Ltd
5:Addison & Co Ltd 
6:Ashok Leyland Ltd, Ennore 
7:Axles India Ltd 
8:TATA Motors
9:Sundaram-Clayton Ltd 
10:Tractor and Farm Equipment (TAFE) 
11:Tube Investments of India Ltd 
12:FIAT
13:Bharat Electronics Ltd.(BEL)
14:Jindal Steel
15:Steel Authority of India Limited(SAIL) 
16:Geometrics ,The Developers software for Machine Companies etc.....


As you have a very very good CGPA,then you can apply in most of the above companies

List of companies which provides jobs to mechanical students in the design fields are :

List of companies which provides jobs to mechanical students in the design fields are 

Aban Group.

Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI)

Chaitany Graphics

DesignTech Systems Ltd

Digital Disign Services

Esquire Engineering Solutions Pvt Ltd

Ganesh Engineering

Himcons Engineering works

Kateel Engineering Industry Pvt Ltd

KPIT Cummins Infosystem Ltd

Mabel Engineers Pvt Ltd

Mahesh Mechanical Works

Neubauplan Machine Design Studio

PCB Engineering Services

Powermetric Technologies

Rolta

Shalaka Technologies Pvt Ltd

Sphinx Worldbiz Limited

Sungrace

Ved Engineering

list of companies for training [me]


1.tata steel

2.tata motors

3.vedanta

4.alstom

5.l&t

6.mahindra

7.jindal

8.indian railway

9.maruti

10.bhisan ateel

best of luck..........

Which Is Better Automobile Or Mechanical Engineering?

I would say both .those who are intrested in mechanic would answer it as mechanic and vice versa.one has to choose their career by analysing themself,finding their talent and as mentioned above most important one "intrest".looking the scope and choosing it after that fails to understand and learn it wouldsome time completely washs away all our dreams... Choose the one that your mind says "if"you have choice if not then there is only a way "hardwork"i does not mean that former one not requires   hardwork but a little more......

Dude its better to do mechanical engineering. I've done it.
Either one has its own scope for a Gud job.
But from mechanical you can turn to any physics related engineering fields for a job and its less for auto.
Refrigeration, hydraulics, aviation any industry. And the best point is mechanical engineers are prefered over auto guys in some fields of automotive industry as they have more knowledge in above said fields.

Auto is better than mechanical becausw , lakhs of students are completing mechanical in all years but only thousands of students are comleting auto in all years, so auto has more scope.

Mechanical Engineering is better,i think so