Modeling of Heavy Vehicle Chassis Frame with Finite Element Analysis

Abstract

To denote the frame parts or basic structure of vehicle, the chassis has utilized. It is a keystone of the vehicle and a vehicle without the body is known to be Chassis. Chassis frame is the central mounting for all the components including the body. Hence it is also known as Carrying Unit (CU). The loads that will be acted on the frame are, loads with the short duration and momentary duration which will be occur during the curve taking, Impact loads due to the vehicle collision, static loads due to the parts of chassis and Over loads. Generally, the Chassis will be failed due to these loads. Hence, by modifying the current design with reverse engineering to collect for the heavy duty truck having the capacity of 10 Ton the data we will be going to rectify those failures. We also conduct the structural analysis for the conventional material structural steel and one of the composite material for mitigating the chassis weight and stresses known as aluminum alloy material. Pro/Engineer tool is utilized for the modeling and assembly followed by Ansys analysis.