STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF BIW A- PILLAR USED IN AUTOMOBILES

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Pillars are among the key components of automobiles. Pillars failure is one of the most common structural imperfection and cause overall structure failure. Since during operation Pillars are subject to various static and dynamic loads which alter the vehicle performance, however, increasing the durability of Pillar in automobiles is necessary. In this paper a Structural Analysis is performed on Pillars of the automobile to obtain its characteristic by subjecting the Boundary conditions. The Analysis has been carried in two phases i.e. modeling and structural analysis. Firstly Pillars of automotive are modeled with the help of CATIA and imported in ANSYS, in structural Analysis FEA of A Pillar has been carried out with adopting different case study such as different material parameter etc. Results showed that both materials were almost identical and shows good agreement with the experimental data which is stated in literature

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