DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF LIGHTWEIGHT CHASSIS USED IN ANTI-DROWNING VEHICLE

Mechanical Engineering

The main goal of the paper is to analyze and find a light material suitable for a car chassis. The material should withstand all the load carried by the chassis. At present, materials with steel alloys are used in chassis, but they are heavy. As the weight of the chassis increases, the load on the engine increases and thus the performance of the vehicle decreases. Thus, it can be used to improve the efficiency of lightweight vehicle materials such as aluminum alloys. In this work, we considered a steel alloy ASTM A710 (currently used material), two aluminum alloys AA 6063, AA 7075. These material properties are applied to the ladder chassis and analyzed under maximum load conditions. The ladder chassis is designed with a C-section to minimize weight. The chassis is modeled in SolidWorks with the appropriate dimensions. Analysis for different materials is done in ANSYS based on model and theoretical calculations.

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