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A new minimal part breakup body-in-white design approach and optimized material map strength assessment
Rajasekaran, Mohan1, Hari Ram, V2.
Body-in-White (BIW) is the Car Body without additional subsystems. Automakers are
trying hard to reduce the mass of the vehicle body. The efficient option is to use
multi materials and minimal number of parts in the BIW, in order to meet the stiffness
requirements considering different load cases. Bending Analysis and Torsion
Stiffness Analysis was performed to understand and assess the structural
performance of the BIW. This paper presents the new BIW architecture with
minimal number of parts, with an effective load path for the Structural and Crash
load cases. Structural bending and torsion stiffness of the BIW were performed to
evaluate the stiffness of the BIW to meet the passenger segment car. The
methodology of using different materials for upper and under body has been
investigated with the alternatives as Aluminium and Magnesium. BIW was
analysed with Steel under body and Magnesium or Aluminium upper body. The
Torsion stiffness of Steel/Magnesium BIW was found to be better than
Steel/Aluminium BIW. The design concept with Steel underbody and Magnesium
upper body was giving lighter weight design with better structural stiffness as
compared to the Steel/Aluminium body. This approach of modifying the materials
for the upper body of the BIW can be considered as lightweight solutions in other
Conceptual BIW designs.
Affiliation:
- Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, India
- Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, India
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