ENSET FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE VEHICLE BODY CRASH ANALYSIS USING ANSYS

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Sakarya University of Applied Sciences, Sakarya, Turkiye

10.24200/sci.2024.63697.8551

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During the design process, it is vital to make sure that an automobile's structure can absorb an impact load and minimize stress levels in order to protect the driver or the body of the vehicle. The car collision, whose body is made from the new Enset fiber-reinforced composite material and the existing glass fiber-reinforced composite material is investigated and compared using an explicit dynamics setup on the ANSYS Workbench. Using a car body composed of Enset fiber-reinforced composite material and the current glass fiber-reinforced composite material, which are modeled on ANSYS Composite Prepost (ACP), the equivalent stress and deformation on impact with a static steel wall and a moving car with speeds of 120 m/s and 200 m/s are investigated. For both materials, the deformation and stress produced as a result of the crash analysis are displayed and elaborated. For 120 m/s of car speed, the maximum deformation and stress that can result from a collision are 94.5 mm and 6.707 GPa for Enset fiber-reinforced composite material and 84 mm and 19.866 GPa for glass-reinforced composite material, respectively. Enset fiber-reinforced composite material has an outstanding energy absorption characteristic; the vibration of the vehicle body built from this material is reduced.

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Scientia Iranica

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 13 October 2024

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  • Receive Date: 11 December 2023
  • Revise Date: 03 June 2024
  • Accept Date: 13 October 2024

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