Formula-SAE Chassis Vehicle FEA and verification
November 10th, 2008 Engineering
FEA
My final year mechanical engineering project was based on the design of a formula-SAE chassis. I worked on the FEA and below are some of the final videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXx07qegCqs
FEA Development via Macro in Ansys9
The development of the fea model was performed via a macro. This is shown below.
Front Impact Deceleration Measurement
We also performed a front impact attenuator crash test to measure the vehicle deceleration under front impact. The final obtained value was 18.1 G
