The Science of Vehicle Dynamics, Guiggiani
Hi, I am a third year mechanical engineering student who is really passionate about automotive fields and wants to dedicate the entire life towards this field.
I am part of FSAE team, suspension senior engineer blah blah cliche things.
As per title, I came across the book called "The Science of Vehicle Dynamics" by Massimo Guiggiani at my uni. I have been diving deep into the vehicle dynamics recently so I rented the book out and it sure is very interesting and gives new perspectives, but I am genuinely struggling to understand it fully. I am an above average student and I feel like if I really tried and took around 20 mintues per page, I could understand most things but I honestly don't know how deep I should go into this book.
So my question is, if my goal is a vehicle dynamics role at OEM or tier 1 supplier comapnies (or maybe even motorsports), how deeply should I go into this book? If you are a vehicle dynamicist, how much of these VD book contents do you actually use and is relevant at work? Do I just aim to get an intutive understanding of VD or understand every line word by word through this book?
From my own couple years of FSAE experience, simplfied equations and VD models were found to be adequate and worked completely fine (as simulations or calculations never can be so accurate and real life testing and calibration is a must). For higher accuracy results, aren't multibody sims like ADAMS or CarMaker be enough? I just would like to get a better perspective and opinions from a real automotive engineer as I am still a student with zero field experience.
Thank you so much for reading this far and thank you for your help in advance!