Review on Design and Analysis of SS-PP Honeycomb Master leaf of Mahindra Bolero Pickup

Abstract

In order to economize energy and conserve naturalresources, weight reduction has been the main focus of automobile manufacturers in the present scenario. The increasing competition and innovations in automobile sector tends to modify the existing products or replacing old products by new and advanced materials. Composite sandwich construction has been recognized as a promising concept for structural design of light weight transportation systems such as aircraft, high-speed trains and fast ships. A sandwich development gives great basic effectiveness, i.e. with high proportion of quality to weight. Regardless of the fact that the idea of sandwich development is not new, it has been fundamentally embraced for non-quality piece of structures in the most recent decade. The aim of the present study is to investigate the strength characteristics of honeycomb sandwich panels with core of polypropylene theoretically and experimentally. FEA of the both existing and honeycomb master leaf will be carry out. A series of strength tests will carry out on composite honeycomb-cored sandwich panel specimen in three point bending test. Simplified theories are applied to analyse bending deformation, buckling or ultimate strength. The structural failure characteristics of composite sandwich panels are discussed.