DefinePK

Abstract

Automobile chassis is an important load bearing member which play an important role of seating an automobile body. Chassis is the most decisive element that gives strength and stability to the vehicle under different conditions. Also, it should be rigid enough to bear the shock, twist, vibration and other stresses to which it is exposed while vehicle is moving on road. Maximum stress, maximum equilateral stress and deflection are important criteria for the design of the chassis. This paper is the work done towards the study of deformation, natural frequency and stress induced in an automotive chassis of Ashok Leyland Vikings model under maximum load for different cross-section of cross members namely C, I, and Rectangular Box (Hollow) type cross sections. The chassis is modelled in Solid Works and FEA is done on the modeled chassis using the ANSYS Workbench.