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A Simultaneous Engineering Approach for Automotive Structural Cross Members
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A simultaneous Design/Process/Material engineering approach for the analysis of automotive structural cross member designs is presented. It is shown that it is possible at the product design stages to evaluate i. forming severity, ii. blank shape and nestability, iii. spotting requirements, and iv. structural analysis based on yield stress and thickness distributions after forming.
The approach allows the reduction of material content in the part (by nesting and possible weight reduction), a better estimate of part performance during stamping, the evaluation of the effect of the material properties, the construction of the blanking die at the same time as production form tooling, and the reduction of a significant portion of the product design/manufacturing cycle. A production cross member is used to validate the approach. The production cross member information also served as a basis for a new prototype cross member.
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Beckman, J., Assempoor, A., and Karima, M., "A Simultaneous Engineering Approach for Automotive Structural Cross Members," SAE Technical Paper 930524, 1993, https://doi.org/10.4271/930524.Also In
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- Stevenson R. “Metal Forming and Die Design - Systems, Processes and Materials” SAE paper 890500
- Liu S. Karima M. “A One Step Finite Element Approach for Product Design of Sheet Metal Stampings” Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Processes, NUMIFORM 92