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Lightweight design of an automobile hinge component using glass fiber polyamide composites
- Source :
- Materials Testing. 60:306-310
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018.
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Abstract
- In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest in lightweight vehicle design due to regulations about reducing fuel consumption and emissions. Lightweight design of vehicle components is one of the most important research topics in vehicle design. Developing the optimum structure in the early stages of design process is very important for minimizing the vehicle weight and production costs. In this paper, an automobile hinge component has been developed using PA66 GF60 glass fiber-reinforced polyamide composite materials instead of conventional steel. The automobile hinge component has been conceived using computer aided design software. Topology optimization was made under specific loadings subject to the constraints of finite element method analysis. As a result of this study, optimum dimensions of the component have been obtained and the weight of the component has been reduced via structural topology optimization techniques while satisfying displacement and stress conditions. The results show that composite materials are an important alterative in lightweight vehicle design.
- Subjects :
- Glass fibers
Computer science
Glass fiber
Polyamides
02 engineering and technology
Displacement and stress
computer.software_genre
Topology
Software
Shape optimization
0203 mechanical engineering
Computer Aided Design
Topology optimization
General Materials Science
Composite material
PA66 GF60
Cutting Process
Chatter
Turning
Search
Composite materials
Light weight vehicles
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Computer-aided design software
Optimal topology desing
020303 mechanical engineering & transports
Mechanics of Materials
Polyamide
Fuel efficiency
Polyamide composite
0210 nano-technology
Materials science, characterization & testing
Algorithms
Hinges
Optimization
Finite element method
Weight reduction
Hinge
Composite
Fiber reinforced materials
Structural optimization
Component (UML)
Finite element method analysis
Glass fiber reinforced polyamides
Computer aided design
business.industry
Mechanical Engineering
Vehicles
Steel fibers
Automobile materials
Structural topology optimization
Materials science
Fuel consumption
Design process
Glass
business
Hingeweight reduction
Automobiles
computer
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21958572 and 00255300
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Materials Testing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....575c24a9d5bb6ad6d682ec93a86de187