Torsional Crashworthiness Analysis of the （扭转的防撞性分析）.pdfVIP

TORSIONAL CHASSIS STIFFNESS AND CRASHWORTHINESS ANALYSIS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS 2000 FORMULA SAE / STUDENT RACING CAR Elliot Brinkworth – Student Blake Siegler – Research Student David Barton – Professor of Solid Mechanics Daniel Jaggard - Student School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. menbps@leeds.ac.uk Abstract: The Formula SAE and Formula Student competitions, held every year in the USA and UK, challenge teams of engineering students to design and build a small single-seater racing car. The University of Leeds has entered teams into these competitions for the past four years and has developed an award winning hybrid monocoque chassis design. The design allows a light, stiff and extremely safe chassis to be produced at a reasonable manufacturing cost. A chassis which is torsionally stiff enables a desirable roll moment distribution to be achieved for good handling balance. A chassis which can absorb high energy impacts whilst controlling the rate of deceleration will increase the likelihood of drivers surviving a crash without injury. This paper describes how a common model of the chassis was developed using HyperMesh to allow both linear and non-linear Finite Element Analysis to be performed, using ANSYS and LS-DYNA respectively, without the need to create two separate models. Keywords : Optimisation, Torsion