fender design
OBJECTIVE:
To design the Drip Area, Sillmount area, bumper mount region and A-pillar mount Region.
INTRODUCTION:
CATIA is a multi-purpose software, used in Computer Aided Designing, Computer Aided Manufacturing, Computer Aided Engineering, PLM and 3D. It is used to design, simulate, analyze and manufacture products in variety of industries.
In our design, we use CATIA as the software to create various functioning operations and features to create the parts and their assembly.
FENDER:
Fender is a part of car body that covers the wheel. It’s main role is to protect the other car parts and pedestrian’s safety as well. When the car moves, there are many possibilities of throwing stones inwards and outwards. As also, a part of safety fender is designed. The fender has many mountings like cowl mounting, drip area, baffle mounting and some extra parts according to the design and requirement of car mountings. The drip is critical area to be concentrated as it is connected to the engine part. While designing, our design should match all requirements like safety, production line of possibilities and the mountings.
In fender, the most common types are full bumper type and half bumper type. Even in some cases, fender is designed differently to increase performance.
DESIGN:
The design of drip area is given above, as it should be designed as per the required to assemble with engine compartment. The Sill Mount, bumper mount, A-pillar mount is created with our own ideas and design. The design should match possibility of producing it. All angles of each mounting should made in order of making easily with better result.
PARTS OF FENDER:
Usually, the parts may vary in each designs. Here, the parts designed are drip area, bumper mount region, Sill Mount, A-pillar, mount region and baffle mount region.
DRIP AREA
This area is assembled to the engine compartment. The design of drip area is provided in master design with all consideration and standards. Drip area is very important in designing as it is joined with engine compartment and gives a rigid assemble strength to the whole fender part. the master design is attached above.
BUMPER MOUNTING
Bumper is a structure attached to the front and rear end in order the restrict the shock after collision. This area is mounted to the bumper region. The fasteners can also be added in assembling the part.
SILL MOUNTING
Sill mount is a portion fixed to the door sill. Sill is a part of car frame at the bottom.
A-PILLAR MOUNTING
A car has many pillars according to the design and the style of it. It is the number of vertical portions in a car. In a sedan type of car, there will be three pillars. If it is a hatchback model, then it has four pillars. The front most pillar is called as A- pillar. This mounting is assembled with A-pillar of the car.
BAFFLE MOUNTING
This area is to make the holding of stronger. This is to provide uniform holding all over the fender. Even the plastic part can be fixed in this region for lining part mounting.
FENDER IMAGES:
BEFORE THICKENING
ISOMETRIC VIEW
FRONT VIEW
BACK VIEW
CONCLUSION:
All the parts of fender are designed and framed as the rules and requirements. The drip area is designed as mentioned in the master design and other parts are done with own idea with proper dimensions.