A Methodology for Evaluating Body Architecture Concepts Using Technical Cost Modeling
2011-01-0767
04/12/2011
- Event
- Content
- The ability to make accurate decisions concerning early body-in-white architectures is critical to an automaker since these decisions often have long term cost and weight impacts. We address this need with a methodology which can be used to assist in body architecture decisions using process-based technical cost modeling (TCM) as a filter to evaluate alternate designs. Despite the data limitations of early design concepts, TCM can be used to identify key trends for cost-effectiveness between design variants. A compact body-in-white architecture will be used as a case study to illustrate this technique. The baseline steel structure will be compared to several alternate aluminum intensive structures in the context of production volume.
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- Citation
- Ezzat, H., Roth, R., Lee, T., Urbance, R. et al., "A Methodology for Evaluating Body Architecture Concepts Using Technical Cost Modeling," SAE Technical Paper 2011-01-0767, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-0767.