Crash worthiness Project 1 - Frontal Crash Simulation

AIM: Simulate an incompressible-laminar-viscous flow through the backward facing step geometry.  perform transient simulation; choose a solver based on the described physics of the flow in problem statement.  Explaining simulation process and way of setting up the problem statement in openFOAM and also, explain…

AIM : To design a BIW of Back Door from the given Class A Surfacing. The Inner Panel is designed and assembled with Hinge Reinforcements, Gas Stay Reinforcements , Wiper Motor Reinforcements and Latch Reinforcements.                             …

AIM : To Design Roof, Bow Roof Rail, Central Reinforcement and Calculations.                                           OBJECTIVES : Designing the roof from the given styling surface with Front and Rear roof rails. Creating…

AIM: Simulation of a 1D Supersonic nozzle flow using MacCormack Method for conservative form and non-conservative form. THEORY: The objective of project is to solve 1D Super-sonic nozzle flow using numerical method.The numerical method which is used is MacCormack Method which is an explicit finite difference technique…

AIM: The aim of this project is to solve steady and unsteady 2D heat conduction equation. THEORY: The heat conduction equation is a partial differential equation that describes the distribution of heat (or the temperature field) in a given body over time. Assumption & Boundary conditions to solve the steady and…

AIM : To derive the following 4th order approximations scheme of the second order derivative: OBJECTIVE :  -To write a program in MATLAB to evaluate the second order derivative of the analytical function, i.e. `f(x) = e^x × cos.x` and comparing it with the 3 numerical approximations.-Plot, compare…

AIM : Creating Drip Area, Bumper Mount, Sill mount, A-Pillar mount and Baffle mount designs on Fender. THEORY : FENDER The fender is the car body part that frames the wheel. Its purpose is to prevent sand, dirt, rocks, and other road spray from being thrown into the air by the rotating tire and close the engine component.…

AIM : Designing of car’s hood and assembly of latch and hinges on hood.                                                                THEORY : HOOD A car…

  AIM : Creating Car’s Side Door Trim with Engineering Features.                           THEORY & TERMS : A car door is a type of door, typically hinged or attached by other mechanisms  in front of an opening which is used for entering…

QUICK RETURN MECHANISMQuick return mechanism is used where the rotary inputs is provided to get the reciprocating motion as the output. They were achieved by constraining the relative motion of the links as per the requirement. Quick return mechanism enables the quicker retraction of the reciprocating link or the output…

AIM : Developing Master Section on Car's Central Pillar with Engineering Fearures.                                         THEORY : Pillars are the vertical or nearly vertical supports of a car's window area designated…

AIM : Creating Locators and Heat Stakes for the Door Applique.  THEORY : Locators : Locators are the attachment in the plastic component which guide the component to get fitted into other surfaces going through clearance holes, there are mainly four and two way locators. 4-way mean you prevent movement at 2 axis (+X,…

AIM : Creating Screw Boss and Doghouse on Centre Console Coin Holder.                                                   General Guidelines for Bosses:   Draft  - 0.5 degrees on walls…

AIM : Create the rib for the Centre console coin holder                                            THEORY : When should Ribs be added? Ribs play the most valuable supporting role in many plastics applications.…

AIM : Creating the Core and Cavity blocks for the Switch Bezel Design.                                     PROCEDURE FOR CREATING CORE :  STEP 1: Extract Boundary from A class. STEP 2: Extrapolate the boundary. STEP…

AIM: Creating the Center Console Coin Holder design through the given Class-A surface of 2.5 mm thickness with the tooling axis meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end performing the Draft analysis on the model.                        …

AIM: Creating the Door Arm Rest component through the given Class-A surface of 2.5 mm thickness with the tooling axis meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end performing the Draft analysis on the model.                              …

Automotive Plastic Design using CATIA V5 Week 8 - Switch Bezel Design & Draft Analysis - Challenge 3 AIM: Creating the Switch Bezel Plastic component through the given Class-A surface of 2.5 mm thickness with the tooling axis meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end performing the Draft analysis on…

Automotive Plastic Design using CATIA V5 Week 8 - Base Bracket Draft Analysis & Design - Challenge 2 AIM: Creating the Base Bracket Plastic component through the given Class-A surface with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface and meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis…

#Automotive Plastic Design using CATIA V5 Week 8 - Draft Analysis on a Fan Cover - Challenge 1 AIM: Creating the tooling axis for the Fan cover model with suitable draft angle and performing the Draft analysis on the model. PROCEDURE:  STEP 1: Ensure there is no gap between the two neighbouring surfaces. Operations>Boundary>definition>select…

OBJECTIVE :   Finding all fourteen coefficients of each species. Calculating the Specific Heat, Enthalpy and Entropy for all the species of thermodynamic data. Calculating Molecular masses of each species. Plotting Specific Heat, Enthalpy and Entropy versus temperature for each species.   THEORY:  File…

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OBJECTIVE : Writing a MATLAB code to optimise  the stalagmite function and find the global maxima of the function.   THEORY: The genetic algorithm is inspired by the process that drives biological evolution. The process of evolution starts with the selection of fittest individuals from a population. Then they…

#PROJECT 1 - CAR’S SIDE DOOR PLASTIC MODEL AIM: 2D Mesh on Car’s side door and Assigning Thickness. ABSTRACT : A car door is a type of door, typically hinged or attached by other mechanisms  in front of an opening which is used for entering and exiting a vehicle. These doors can be opened manually, or…

AIM : To write a program to simulate simple pendulum motion.   OBJECTIVES : Writing a program to simulate simple pendulum motion with damping using Length of the string : L = 1 metre, Mass of the Pendulum : m = 1 kg, Damping Coefficient : b = 0.05, Gravity : g = 9.81 m/s square. Motion between 0-20 sec, for angular…

AIM: To perform the crash on the roof of the car with an impactor and analysis where stresses are working on it. OBJECTIVES: Roof Crush - BIW (1). Transforming the Impactor. A 180° rotation about the global z-axis with the point opposite to C as base point  A 5° rotation about the axis through axis AB A 25°…

Crashworthiness Analysis using HyperMesh and Radioss #Project 2 - Side Body Crash Simulation Challenge AIM: To perform the crash on the Side body of the car to a pole and analysis where stresses are working on it. OBJECTIVES: Side Body-BIW Checking the unit system and either following [Mg mm s] or [Kg mm ms]. Creating…

Crashworthiness Analysis using HyperMesh and Radioss #Project 1 - Frontal Crash Simulation Challenge AIM: To perform the crash on the frontal section of the car with wall and analysis where stresses are working on it. OBJECTIVES: Frontal crash-BIW Checking the unit system and either following [Mg mm s] or [Kg mm ms]. Creating…

Crashworthiness Analysis using HyperMesh and Radioss #Assignment 5-RADIOSS Interfaces & Study of Effect of Notches Challenge AIM: Creating mesh for bumper assembly, simulating and analysis of crash tube model.   OBJECTIVES: Bumper Assembly (1). Creating mesh for Bumper Assembly and connecting the whole component…

Crashworthiness Analysis using HyperMesh and Radioss #Assignment 4-RADIOSS Material Laws Challenge   AIM: Changing materials Laws and observing 7 different cases, their animations and other parameters.   OBJECTIVES: Johnson Cook Materials (1). Running the model as it is given in challenge, observing simulation,…

Crashworthiness Analysis using HyperMesh and Radioss #Assignment 3-2D Element Formulation Challenge AIM: Comparison of results with base simulation and improved shell element properties    OBJECTIVES:  (1). Changing the runtime to 55 ms. of crash beam file. (2). Changing the number of animation steps during…

Crashworthiness Analysis using HyperMesh and Radioss #Assignment 2 - RADIOSS Engine File Editing & 3D Meshing Challenge AIM: Engine File Calculation, Editing & 3D Meshing  OBJECTIVES:  (1). To calculate parameters from given Engine input file. Checking the material properties of the rail component and calculating the speed…

Crashworthiness Analysis Using Hypermesh and Radioss #Challenge - Assignment 1 - 2D Meshing AIM: 2D Meshing and Assigning Thickness OBJECTIVES: Carrying out the geometry cleanup operation, Midsurface, 2D Meshing, assigning thickness by creating a generic property on the given 3 files. (1). Practice (Part 1) (2). Mounting…

#PROJECT 2 REAR WHEEL PANEL  AIM : 2D Mesh of Rear Wheel Panel Body and Assigning Thickness. ABSTRACT : The back wheel panel compartment is most often located at the trunk or rear of the vehicle. Trunk of a car is the vehicle's main storage or cargo compartment, often a hatch at the rear of the vehicle. OBJECTIVES…

#WEEK 11 CHALLENGE OBJECTIVE: To give the side body component to desired shape as shown in images above and writing a Macro for the same. PROCEDURE: STEP 1: Import the given side boody .HM file to Hyperworks and we can see the FE  STEP 2: Extracting the surface from FE *Geom>surface>FE>select elements>displayed>create…

#WEEK 10 CHALLENGE AIM: To Batch mesh the components of hood and fender. OBJECTIVES: (1).Batch mesh components of hood-inner body,outer body,two hinges and latch. (2).Batch mesh Fender component.   IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS/COMMANDS: A). Setting up criteria file settings as per given data. B). Setting up parameters file…

#WEEK 07 CHALLENGE AIM: To Generate manual mid surface and 2D mesh.  ABSTRACT : A back door of a car is a hinged board of door at the rear of the vehicle that can be moved up and down during loading and unloading of logistics. It is also called a tailboard. OBJECTIVES:Generating manual mid surface and 2D mesh after…

#WEEK 6 CHALLENGE AIM: To clean up geometry and mesh the Hood or its components.   ABSTRACT : The Hood is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles. It gives a good look and style to the car. Hood can open to allow access to the engine components, radiator etc for maintenance and repair. Hood is generally…

WEEK 8 CHALLENGE AIM: To obtain 3D tetramesh in components with different methods. OBJECTIVES:  (1). 3D Tetramesh of the components Hub and Cover Housing by conversion of 2D tria elements into tetrahedral elements by using tetramesh panel. Element minimum size   -2mm Element maximum size  -7mm Target element…

#WEEK 8 CHALLENGE AIM: To mesh the components and create connectors to all parts. OBJECTIVES: (1). Mesh and create Seam-Quad(angled+capped=L) collector to Right Rail 2 andFront truss 1. (2). Mesh  and create Quad Elements collector on Left Rail 2 and Front Truss 1. (3). Mesh and create Spot Weld collectors on Front…