Studies on Structural Analysis of Automotive Door Using Conventional, Present and Proposed Materials

Abstract

In this work the explicit structural Finite Element Analysis of automotive door of a vehicle is carried out by considering Conventional Galvanized iron material, Present Aluminium material and Proposed PEEK and Carbon 10% with Polypropylene 90% composite. The main objective of the work is to develop a suitable model of car door for TATA Indica V2 car; to conduct a explicit dynamic structural analysis (stress and displacement analysis) of car door by finite element method, to compare the performance of Conventional, Present and Proposed material. The door for TATA Indica V2 vehicle was used to develop the geometric model of the door by SOLID EDGE V.15 modelling software. This 3-D geometric model was imported to ANSYS Workbench 18.0/12.0. The explicit dynamic structural FEA was done after assigning speed and boundary conditions. The equivalent stress and the displacement are noted and investigated to compare with three different beam material such as Stainless steel beam, Stainless steel Bike handle and concrete beam.