Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Design, Analysis and Fabrication of a Chassis and Impact attenuator for a Formula type Race Car

ABSTRACT: Chassis is an indispensable structure of an automobile, especially in a racing car. Good designs allow a light, stiff and extremely safe chassis to be produced at a reasonable manufacturing cost. A design model of the chassis was prepared using CATIA according to the guidelines provided by SAE. Many design iterations were run in order to determine the best combination of vehicle mass, component packaging, ergonomics and weight distribution while still ensuring driver safety without any compromise. During the FEA tests, Stress distributions, displacements, frequency nodes were analyzed and the results were found satisfactory. Based on the analytic results, the chassis was optimized accordingly and then fabricated. Impact attenuator plays a vital role in vehicle safety, when mounted on the front bulkhead of the vehicle. The structure of the impact attenuator was designed according to the SAE guidelines. The crash simulation of the impact attenuator was carried out in the FEA tool and the results were found satisfactory. Thus Impact attenuator was fabricated.   


Under the guidance of
Prof. Desai Gowda. H.S.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, NMIT

SHIVACHARAN. M.S. [1NT10ME413]                                                                         
RAHUL. P. NADIG [1NT09ME080]
SACHIN. K.S.           [1NT09ME088]                                                                         
ANILKUMAR. J      [1NT10ME401]

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