Design Optimization Of Hollow Beam For The Car Side Door Impact Beam

Noor Asmidar, Ismail Affendee (2008) Design Optimization Of Hollow Beam For The Car Side Door Impact Beam. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Side impact crash generally can be dangerous to the passenger inside the car. This is because there is no large space of deformation to protect the passenger from the crash force. The side door impact beam that has inside the door is the part of safety to defend and protect the passenger from the deformation and stress of the side door. By using design software which is Solidworks Office Premium, for design beam and additional software of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software which is COSMOSWorks, the beam with different shapes and using two different types of material which is High Strength Steel and Aluminium Alloy will be develop to get the appropriate shape to hold the high impact. After that, optimization will be done to the material of aluminium alloy to get the appropriate size to hold the same maximum load that applied to the material of steel. The result of the analysis shows that the optimum cross section shape that can sustained high maximum load is the cross section of square hollow shape for both type of material. Meanwhile, for the optimization result shows that the size can sustain the high maximum load with the same displacement that had been set in the step to run the optimization. The analysis is run again the make sure that the result is right or not.

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