Fender Design Challenge
FENDER DESIGN
OBJECTIVE:
The objective of the project is to design a body in white front fender of a car with its mounting using the information provided by the styling team. The skin data and master sketch are the information provided by the styling team.
INTRODUCTION:
Fender is the American English term for the part of an automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle body that frames a wheel well (the fender underside). Its primary purpose is to prevent sand, mud, rocks, liquids, and other road spray from being thrown into the air by the rotating tire.
1.Full fender type:
Full fender type is traditional type fender where more material consumption is observed. This type of fender is used in old design of automobiles where it increases the overall weight and thus reduces the performance of car.
2. Half fender types:
Half fender type is modern design where less material consumption is observed so productivity increases by reducing size of blank and thus providing more performance. The maintenance also relatively low compared to full bumper type.
In order to fix the fender Mountings are essential in our design we classified the mounting in 5 areas:
- A Pillar Mounting
- Bumper Mounting
- Drip Area mounting
- Baffel Mounting
- Sill Mounting
MASTER DATAS:
A Pillar Mounting:
Bumper Mounting:
Drip Area mounting:
Baffel Mounting:
Sill Mounting:
ISOMTRI VIEW:
Conclusion:
We designed the Front Fender in CATIA V5 application with proper mountings by using the Master Sketch and Design Parameters.