Field Problem of Cabin Mounting Bracket of Load King Pride

Abstract

In an automobile industry while designing the components, the most critical aspect considered is the compactness and the weight of the component. According to the Newton’s 2 law of motion the energy required to accelerate the vehicle depends upon the mass of the automobile. In the structural point of view the automotive materials should have more strength to weight ratio. One of the structural automotive vehicles and which are more in number are the mounting brackets. Mounting brackets are generally used support the structural component and electronic components such as batteries, seats, cabin, chassis, rear body and also it should support the external load such as passengers. Since it is very much needed to reduce the weight and therefore it is to be redesigned or optimized for minimum weight without sacrificing the functionality. The most common material used for the structural components is structural steel.  The bracket is designed according to the specifications of the mountings without considering any other factors.  Analysis will be performed for Existing and New modified designs. The most important factors that are concentrated are stress distribution and deflection. The design structure is optimized for its topology. The reviewed design is analyzed and the better design for the minimum weight is considered, according to the optimized design parameters the structure is rebuilt.  Modeling is the representation of the system or a part of the system in a physical or a mathematical model that suitable for demonstrating behavior of the system. Simulation involves subjecting the models to various inputs or environmental conditions to observe the behavior and thus explore the nature of the results. That might be obtained from the real world system. Simulation is the manipulation of the model. It may involve mathematical model subjected to mathematical disturbance functions that simulate expected service conditions or it may involves software which are built on the basis of the finite element techniques like Ansys, Nastran, Hypermesh, LS-Dyna etc… loads and constraints are used as boundary conditions and required results are extracted from the Software tools. In this project, an attempt has been made to produce optimized design of a mounting bracket.