Challenge

Fender Design Challenge

AAkash Shenvi31 Jan 2023

Objective :- Fender Design

Fender:

Fender is the US English term for part of an automobile (vehicle body of car) that frames the wheel well (the fender underside). Its primary purpose is to shield wheels and protect both passengers’ compartment and pedestrians from projection of water, mud and stones.

Fender is one of the styling components which is exposed to customer front which cannot be welded. Most of the assembling joining is done using fasteners, retainer clips and proper fitting.

Fenders are either made of steel or thermoplastics. Various materials are used to make cars. The main materials used for making cars, parts, and components, along with future trends, are steel, aluminum, magnesium, copper, plastics, and carbon fibers. The prime reason for using steel in the body structure is its inherent capability to absorb impact energy in a crash situation. The use of aluminum can potentially reduce the weight of the vehicle body. Recent developments have shown that up to 50% weight saving for the body in white can be achieved by the substitution of steel by aluminum.

TYPES OF FENDERS:

FULL BUMPER TYPE :-

The full bumper type fender was used in old cars, it covers the full area until the front lighting. But it has a lot of sheet metal material which is unnecessary and increases the weight of the fender. This type of fenders are no longer used in automobiles.

HALF BUMPER TYPE:-

Mainly half bumper type is used in automobiles. It is basically related to scrap management. Half bumper type leads to less wastage of the blank.

We are changed from full bumper type to half bumper type to reduce the scrap rate per blank. In the full bumper, we can only produce one Fender per blank, whereas as a half bumper type we can produce 2 fenders per blank.