A Study On Body Panel Fabrication On Light Vehicle Structure

Sulaiman, Muhamad Faizal (2019) A Study On Body Panel Fabrication On Light Vehicle Structure. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The Shell Eco-Marathon aims to inspire engineering students to develop new approaches to sustainable mobility and fuel efficiency. One of the main points to achieve fuel consumption is by reducing the weight of urban’s car body panel. Among the material that can reduce the weight of car body panel is Nylon Polyamide. So the two types of joining dog bone sample which is slotted and lap joint have been created using 3D printer machines. It aims to determine the joining strength of the sample to produce a car body panel for the Shell Eco-Marathon competition. The properties of maximum tensile strength and Young’s modulus of the sample was tested using tensile test. This study was conducted to analyze the suitability of Nylon Polyamide material that will be uses to fabricate a new car body panel for UTeM team that participated in SEM challenge. Based on that, the result show the average tensile strength of large size for slot joint is 8.236 MPa while for lap joint is 6.9495 MPa which is lower than slot joint. So, it can be conclude that the slot joint of the large size more suitable to fabricate the body panel of urban car that participate in SEM competition.

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