Studies And Design Of Carbon Fiber Monocoque Chassis For Formula SAE Racing Car

Mohd Saufi, Amran (2009) Studies And Design Of Carbon Fiber Monocoque Chassis For Formula SAE Racing Car. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Formula SAE (FSAE) is a student design competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). The competition is to offer students a chance to design, build, and race a formula-style race car. As a main component in a vehicle, chassis need adequate strength to encounter a lot of challenges especially during the competition. The main material of the chassis directly influences the performance and properties of the chassis in term of strength, reliability and stiffness. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to design and analyze the Carbon Fiber Monocoque Chassis for FSAE. The main objective of this project is to design the chassis with high strength and stiffness. The objective is achieved by collected all the necessary informations through the research related to undergo an accurate database of methodology. The methodology then allowed the design process to be derived. By using the O’Neill spaceframe chassis as a model for dimension, three concept designs are developed by using CAD software and later the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software to analyze the torsional stiffness and longitudinal rigidity of the chassis. By given a minimum target of 300N.m/Degree of torsional stiffness of the chassis, the chassis undergo the analysis level in order to accomplish the minimum target. The longitudinal rigidity test will be applied on the final design only. Once the final design has been selected, the final refinements of the chassis need to carry out to ensure the chassis follow all the technical requirement and rules of the FSAE competition.

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