New Approaches in Designing a Race Car Chassis for an Engineering Competition

Abstract

This paper presents the design and verification procedure of a race car chassis, built respecting the rules of an international competition dedicated to young researchers from all universities of the world. We used CAD/CAE methods. The designed chassis has been subjected to various analyzes, corresponding to the different stresses during operation: braking, cornering, asymmetric loads, frontal impact, side impact, roll-over, torsional stiffness, buckling, bending, modal analysis and transient analysis. A total of 3 versions of chassis have been analyzed to extract the best results. After analysis, we could choose materials, pipe size, and chassis structure. This project demonstrated that the proposed chassis design meets the needs of the engineering competition regulations.