Fender Design Challenge
CAR FENDER
A fender is the part of a car, truck, motorcycle, or other vehicles that frames or covers a wheel well. Its main purpose is to prevent debris, rocks, mud, liquids, sand, and other road debris from getting thrown in the air while the tire rotates.The “fender” typically refers to the front panel that covers the front wheels, and the “quarter panel” typically refers to the rear panel that covers the wheel that also includes the roof pillar. The main purpose why there are fenders on cars is that they shield the wheels and they protect the passengers, the pedestrians, and the other vehicles from stones, mud, liquid, and other debris that can fly in the air because of the speeding rotating wheels while the car is running.
The below image shows a fender and quarter panel on a car. The top half of the image is the fender or “front fender” (highlighted in red). The bottom half of the image shows the quarter panel or “rear fender” (highlighted red).
There are two types of fender :-
- FULL BUMPER TYPE
- HALF BUMPER TYPE
In general we use half bumper type because in full bumper type the blank used for creating is very large and also lot material wastage are there.Inorder to reduce scrap we use half size bumper type fender.
DESIGNING OF A FENDER
We use this values as the basic nominal values for the designing of a fender.
MOUNTING REGIONS
5 Mounting regions
- Drip area
- Bumper
- A pillar
- Sill
- Body
DRIP AREA
It is the area where the fender attach to the engine compartment and also must have a distance of 10mm between them. Darts are attached to decrease vibration.From front we leave 150mm for headlamp and 200-300mm for the cowl top.
BUMPER MOUNTING AREA
A PILLAR MOUNTING AREA
SILL MOUNTING AREA
BODY MOUNTING AREA
BAFFLE MOUNTING AREA
Area where baffle or mudguard are fixed under the arc area above the wheel
FENDER AFTER APPLYING THICKNESS OF 0.75MM
CONCLUSION
The fender is designed by using NX software under specific parameters and standards.