New Approach to High Rigidity Body Construction Using Dynamic Analysis

2003-01-1332

03/03/2003

Event
SAE 2003 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Various deformation shapes of the vehicle body were investigated for the purpose to establish vehicle body's performance criteria which correlates well to handling performance and ride comfort. Using evaluations by experienced test driver, the fact that the rigidity of each body deformation correlated well to different dynamic performance was found. With careful verification test, simple lateral frequency response was chosen as the criteria for handling performance and vertical response was chosen for ride comfort. These were applied to the development of our recent production vehicle body. Finite element analysis simulation with these criteria helped to make new construction to meet body performance targets with minimum weight during planning-stage of the development. Also, the targets of ride comfort and handling performance of actual vehicle were accomplished with very little structural change during the testing and improvement stage of the vehicle development.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-1332
Pages
9
Citation
Shibaoka, M., Kusaka, K., Nakanishi, Y., and Itai, Y., "New Approach to High Rigidity Body Construction Using Dynamic Analysis," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-1332, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-1332.
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Publisher
Published
Mar 3, 2003
Product Code
2003-01-1332
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English