Design, Analysis and Development of composite matrix material upright of FSAE vehicle

Abstract

Lightweight material Upright plays a very important role in improving the performance of the race cars i.e. lowering down the unsprung mass of the car and improving the ride and handling characteristics of the vehicle. Due to excellent characteristic of Nylon66 of reducing noise, wear rate, light weight, simple to design and manufacture and for the same, lightweight composite matrix material i.e. Nylon66 reinforced with Carbon fibre was used. The vehicle upright was designed in SOLIDWORKS in accordance to the Formula SAE (society of automotive engineers) rulebook. The static structural analysis was performed in ANSYS over the vehicle upright to find out the von-miss stress and total deformation. Final optimized design was manufactured using the technique of continuous fibre fabrication in order to get the desired strength of the Upright.