Design and Developement of Chassis for Solar Operated Vehicle

Abstract

Chassis is a major component of a vehicle system. The automotive chassis is tasked with keeping all components together while driving and transferring vertical and lateral loads, caused by acceleration, on the chassis through suspension and the wheels. The key to good chassis design is that further the mass is away from the neutral axis the more rigid it is. In this project CAD software and ANSYS SOFTWARE is used for analysis (static, dynamic, thermal) using finite element method. Stress analysis is a key characteristic of a chassis. The design and analysis of chassis is done by identifying the location of high stress areas. The chassis design used in this project is the space frame chassis.