Design and Analysis of Lightweight Vehicles
ME 59700/ 3 Cr.
This course would focus on design and analysis of lightweight vehicles and will cover the following two main subjects:MATERIALS FOR LIGHTWEIGHT VEHICLE STRUCTURES, DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF VEHICLE STRUCTURES
- Available Online: No
- Credit by Exam: No
- Laptop Required: No
Outcomes
After completing this course a student should be able to:
- Discuss materials, their properties, processing technology and design and materials selection issues pertinent to designing lightweight vehicles.
- Select the materials and describe considerations for lightweight structures.
- Describe advanced steels, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and polymer matrix composites along with information on material properties, processing characteristics and application examples.
- Explain structural configuration of modern vehicles and vehicle design requirements
- Explain symmetric and unsymmetric beams; single and multicell thin-walled tubes; skin stiffened construction; shear flow; shear lag; finite element analysis
- Perform design projects.
Topics
- Advanced steels for lightweight automotive structures
- History of steel in automobiles
- Types of high strength steels
- Third generation advanced high strength steels
- Manufacturing and forming high strength steels
- Designing with steels for light weighting automotive structures
- Aluminum alloys for lightweight automotive structures
- International designation systems for aluminum alloys
- International temper designations for aluminum alloys
- Aluminum alloys used in lightweight automotive vehicles
- Substituting aluminum alloys for competitive materials
- Magnesium alloys for lightweight powertrains and automotive structures
- Cast magnesium, Sheet magnesium, Extruded magnesium
- Thermoplastics and thermoplastic-matrix composites for lightweight
automotive structures- Thermoplastics used in automobiles
- Thermoplastic matrix composites for automobiles
- Joining of thermoplastic matrix composites
- Thermoset-matrix composites for lightweight automotive structures
- Manufacturing processes
- Carbon fiber reinforced thermoset-matrix composites
- Introduction to design, design requirements, and the design process
- Review of classical beam theory
- Design and analysis of symmetric beams subjected to static axial and/or
bending loads - Material selection, design allowables, and MIL-HDBK-5
- Fatigue of materials and structures
- Design and analysis of unsymmetric beams
- Stress at a point and failure under multi-axial states of stress
- Shear stresses in single and multi-cell beams subjected to bending and/or
torsional loadings - Structural configurations of modern automobiles
- Analysis and design methods for typical automotive structural elements