Automotive Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)

About this book

Anyone who has operated, serviced, or designed an automobile or truck in the last few years has most certainly noticed that the age of electronics in our vehicles is here! Electronic components and systems are used for everything from the traditional entertainment system to the latest in “drive by wire”, to two-way communication and navigation. The interesting fact is that the automotive industry has been based upon mechanical and materials engineering for much of its history without many of the techniques of electrical and electronic engineering. The emissions controls requirements of the 1970’s are generally recognized as the time when electronics started to make their way into the previous mechanically based systems and functions. While this revolution was going on, the electronics industry developed issues and concepts that were addressed to allow interoperation of the systems in the presence of each other and with the external environment. This included the study of electromagnetic compatibility, as systems and components started to have influence upon each other just due to their operation. EMC developed over the years, and has become a specialized area of engineering applicable to any area of systems that included electronics. Many well-understood aspects of EMC have been developed, just as many aspects of automotive systems have been developed. We are now at a point where the issues of EMC are becoming more and more integrated into the automotive industry.

Table of contents
(12 chapters)

• Front Matter
  Pages X-XIV
• What is EMC?
  Pages 1-12
• System Level Issues
  Pages 13-15
• Power and Signal Return
  Pages 17-26
• Basic Concepts Used in EMC
  Pages 27-89
• Electromagnetic Fields
  Pages 91-114
• EMC Testing
  Pages 115-159

• EMC Modeling
  Pages 161-166
• Effects of Cabling and Harnesses
  Pages 167-202
• Automobile Electrical/Electronics Systems
  Pages 203-248
• EMC Regulation of Automotive Systems
  Pages 249-261
• Vehicle System Electrical Transients
  Pages 263-272
• Electrostatic Discharge
  Pages 273-288
• Back Matter
  Pages 281-295

Bibliographic Information

• Editors
  Terence Rybak, Mark Steffka
• Published:
  31 December 2003
• Hardcover
• Number of Pages
  XIV, 295
• Number of Illustrations
  98 b/w illustrations
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-7713-5