Fender Design

FENDER

The fender is the part of the car directly over the wheel well which helps prevent debrids and grime kicked up by the wheels from damaging the sides of the car other nearby vehicles while you drive. The fender also protects the wheels from side impacts and potential damage.

Fender are the curved strut which sits over the wheel well on a car and helps cover the top of the wheel. Most cars have fenders of one type or another to help cover their wheel wells, and these fenders are generally made of the same plastic, metal, or fiberglass material as the rest of the vehicle.

Shape of Fender:

Fenders protect the sides of your car. The main purpose of fenders is to prevent the dirt and debrids kicked up by your wheels from damaging the sides of your car. The fender catches anything brought up by your wheels and causes it to drop straight down instead of spattering against or scratching your vehicle.

Fenders also help protect your wheels. Fenders also provide some protection to the wheels against collisions with other cars, although this isn't perfect. Generally, the fenders will get hit before the wheels do and depending on how hard the impact is, will stop whatever hit your car from damaging your tires.

Types of Fenders:

1. Full Bumper type
2. Half Bumper type

Now a days we mostly use half bumper type fenders, as the other one cause more wastage of blank material compared to half bumper type. Because, by slightly increasing the blank size we can produce two fenders at the same time if we are following half bumper type design.

Master Section:

We have to design various mounts such as;

1. Drip area
2. A Piller mount
3. Sill mount
4. Bumper mount
5. Baffle mount

Sufficient strength must be ensured by providing suitable embosses and beads following the engineering standards. Minimum fillet radius of 2.5mm must be applied in order to ensure pedstrain safety as well as manufacturability and aesthetics.

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Drip Mount

The above image is Drip area mount used to connect with BIW part of engine compartments. We need to follow the standard design consideration which could be followed by any OEM. The length of Drip Mount is varied between the OEM. We know that the Drip mount is connected with the Engine compartment with some fastening technique.

A Piller

This mount is designed in such a way to connect with A Piller of car side body.

Sill Mount

Sill is a part of upper body structure of BIW of car. Car door sill is a small strip of metal placed at the base of your doors. These plates offer support, protecting your car's frame to ensure theres no sagging. Sills also provide a solid footing, allowing you to climb in and out of your vehicle comfortably.

Bumper Mount

This mount is used to connect the Bumper of the car.

Baffle Mount

The Mount is used to install the Baffle, baffle is a sponge type material which is installed above the wheel arch to fender. Baffle is installed to reduce the noise and vibration developed during the vehicle.

Final Front Fender

Conclusion:

The Fenders Mounts has been created using NX-CAD software. This mounts are created according to our own design Engineering Standards.