FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF EICHER 20.16 LADDER CHASSIS WITH OPTIMIZATION IN CHANNEL SECTION TO ENHANCE THE STRENGTH DURING STATIC LOAD

Mechanical Engineering

In the current work, the CAD model of chassis has been developed by using CREO 5.0. The model has been simulated using ANSYS software on static structural domain 15.0 workbench in order to observe various parameters affecting the structural performance of chassis. Six types of configurations of chassis including validation model have been used with different profile chassis with elliptical hole 3mm fillet radius, chassis with circular hole 3mm fillet radius, chassis with circular and elliptical hole, chassis fillet with 3mm radius. An optimized model of chassis with circular hole comprising 12mm thickness with 3mm of fillet radius has been developed. The simulation of the optimized model gives minimum value of stress and deformation at constant load of 83139.75N which has optimized and converged result compared to respected models of chassis, it has also been observed that stress and deformation was reduced at static load of 83139.75N in ladder chassis the material is reduced in present optimized model and also observed higher structural performance. The configuration of optimized model gives maximum convergence on all parameters amongst all the configurations used.

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