Design and Analysis of a Skid for Fuel Tank Bracket of a Truck

Abstract

In today’s industries, material handling system is unitary of the significant system. Skids have a massive impact on logistics, packaging and also on the transportation systems. Skids are used in different industries for different resolutions. But mostly, the purpose of skid is in material storage, material handling of heavy parts and transporting cargoes. Reason for using skid is to ensure safe material handling and storage of the material. If the skid is not properly designed then it will fail to handling and storage. This makes the designer to be more cautious about designing of the skids.

A skid is a single-deck loading platform which lacks a bottom deck. Designing is a field of making a part to be sustained in particular condition. In this project, design of skid for fuel tank bracket of a heavy truck is done precisely. So, the skid for fuel tank bracket discussed in this Project was designed with conventional CAD design practices and then analyzed statically with FEA software having gravitational loading of fuel tank brackets. Initially, the design of skid is developed based on the design of fuel tank bracket using NX- CAD software. Two types of skids are developed with same dimensions but with different sections.ie. Solid section and L section skid. The designed skid is later imported into Ansys to perform structural analysis. The analysis was carried out to determine the induced stresses and deflections at various locations on proposed skids. The project also includes the analysis of skid by comparing different materials. Based on the results the best skid is proposed and finally the fabrication drawing of the skid is created and documented in the report.