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Department of Mechanical Engineering Advanced Vehicle Engineering – ANSYS

In this week, you will learn how to carry out a front bump test and a modal analysis of a
chassis in Ansys Mechanical. The aim is to find out the resulting stress and deformation due
to various forces on the chassis as displayed in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Bumps and vibrations.


In this week, you will apply the loads and boundary conditions o the chassis model for two
different cases and then look at the resulting stress and deformation contours.

1 Frontal Bump Test


First crash simulation is the frontal bump test. The test is conducted to ensure the vehicle
can handle roughest of bumps without affecting the vehicle stability. Go to the new analysis
tab and insert a static structural system as displayed in Figure 2.

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Figure 2 New analysis tab.


Rename it to frontal bump test as displayed in Figure 3.

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Figure 3 Rename.
To simulate this case an impact force is applied on the front right shock mounts and the
firewall behind the driver with the left shock mount is fixed. Right-click on frontal bump test
and insert a force as displayed in Figure 4.

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Figure 4 Insert force.


Select the right lower shock mounting points on the chassis and click apply as displayed in
Figure 5.

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Figure 5 Select mounting points.

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Define by components with 8250 N in the y-direction as displayed in Figure 6.

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Figure 6 y-direction.
Insert fixed supports as displayed in Figure 7.

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Figure 7 Insert fixed supports.


Select the vertices is following as displayed in Figure 8.

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Figure 8 Select the vertices.


Go to solutions tab and change beam selection result to yes as displayed in .

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Figure 9 Beam selection.


Righ-click on the solution tab and insert the total deformation as displayed in Figure 10.

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Figure 10 Total deformation.


Insert von mises stress contours as displayed in Figure 11.

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Figure 11 Von mises stress.


Solve the simulation as displayed in Figure 12.

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Figure 12 Solve.
The maximum displacement is seen on the frontal members right above where the forces
were applied. Animate the results to visualize the displacements as displayed in Figure 13.

Figure 13 Maximum displacement.


The equivalent stress contours showcase a maximum stress of 257 mPa as displayed in . This
would result in a factor of safety of two for more safer design appropriate changes like
increasing the pipe thickness or using different materials can be made.

Figure 14 Maximum stress.

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2 Modal Analysis
The modal analysis is conducted to check the natural frequency of the chassis during
vibration under its self-weight. To ensure a stable structure this frequency should be well
above the expected range of excitation frequency caused by external factors. Go to the new
analysis tab and insert a modal system as displayed in Figure 15.

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Figure 15 Modal system.


To know about the various mode shapes of the upper body structure the chassis frame is
fixed at firewall behind the driver. Insert fixed support choose the vertices as displayed in
Figure 16 and Figure 17.

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Figure 16 Insert fixed support.

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Figure 17 Choose vertices.
In the analysis setting confirm number of modes to six and change the stress strain and
reaction forces output requests to yes as displayed in Figure 18.

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Figure 18 Reaction forces.


Go to the solutions tab and change beam selection results to yes as displayed in .

Figure 19 Beam selection.

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Solve the model as displayed in Figure 20.

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Figure 20 Solve.
The tabular data shows a summary of the modal results. Select all the available modes and
create mode shape results as displayed in Figure 21.

Figure 21 Create mode shape.


Evaluate the generated results from the solution tab as displayed in Figure 22.

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Figure 22 Evaluate.

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The total deformation corresponds to the first mode shape with the lowest natural
frequency 37 Hertz as displayed in Figure 23.

Figure 23 Natural frequency.


The total deformation to corresponds to the second mode shape of frequency 51.9 Hertz.
The frequency modes that determine the chassis dynamic characteristics are in the range of
37 to 115 Hertz as displayed in Figure 24. Once the accessories like seats, engine, suspension
and steering systems are added to the vehicle the mass of the vehicle increases thereby
increasing the natural frequency.

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Figure 24 Chassis dynamics characteristics.

3 Highlight
 Loading conditions and pro processing
 Frontal bump test
 Modal anaysis

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