DESIGN ANALYSIS & OPTIMIZATION OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINE MOUNTING BRACKET
Keywords:
FEM,Egine mounting Bracket, Design, Analysis, Mass, costAbstract
Due to increasing global competitive market, automotive designs are pushed to the limits to decrease the cost and at the same time increase the stiffness to mass ratio and performance. Above all, the biggest constraint has been to achieve all these with reduced design time. Optimization techniques are useful in validation and optimizing the design to get new size and shape. These techniques surely will reduce the design time, when compared to the experimental testing. In this project an Automotive engine mounting bracket is selected for analysis; there will be four mounting brackets to mount the engine on chassis. This is a very important component as the product market life is reducing and there is a need to get more new and better designs with less time to decrease the cost and at the same time increase the stiffness to mass ratio and performance. In this project I have reduced the mass in 0.34kgs per component and as per the cost wise in the year 375000 Rupees saved.