Papers by Keyword: Automobile Panel

Abstract: Stiffness is a very important property of automobile panel, especially for high-strength thinning sheet due to personnel security and energy conservation on auto industry. It is difficult to study because of the complexity streamline feature of auto body. An experiment method for determining stiffness was presented. The experiment study models of which based on the hyperboloid shallow shells that could represent automobile panel’s surface features was established. The criterion and research technique of automobile panel stiffness were introduced. The experiment research works of effects of two main process conditions on stiffness which blank holding force (BHF) and boundary condition during the stiffness test were obtained. All conclusions provided a particularly effective process guidance and technical approach in the automobile panel production.

Abstract: The formation mechanism of skid lines in automobile panel forming process is investigated in this paper. Based on finite element dynamic explicit algorithm and area coordinate method, a numerical system for predicting skid line is proposed. By comparing with the experimental results, the prediction system is proved to be accurate and efficient.

Abstract: Describe an advanced design and manufacturing technology Concurrent Engineering (CE) and give the automobile covering parts mould development flow basing on concurrent engineering. It tries to consider initially all factors of the mould development life cycle. Take an automobile covering part for example. Basing on the finite element analysis software AUTOFORM, do die design and forming simulation. According to the result of simulation, designer can predict the defect of forming and timely modify the forming process. So in stage of process design taking into account the blank forming, this kind of concurrent design of the mould surface can be directly used to mould design, also won't return after the mold design to modify the die-face design process. So on account of concurrent engineering, it can reduce the changes of automobile covering parts mould design and the number of repeated test, improve quality, reduce cost, and shorten the cycle of mould development.

Abstract: This paper takes automobile panel as the study object, and adopts non-contact 3-D scanner to obtain the point cloud data of the automobile panel for point cloud data sampling and noise reduction processing. It obtains NURBS surface fitting through detecting of curvature and grid. Reverse design can improve the product prototype in a fast speed and provide an important way of automobile panel development.

Abstract: Stiffness is one of the most important performance indicators of cars’ parts. Currently, most of the major automobile panels are made of big sheet metal, whose stiffness are relatively small, which lead to a lot of difficulties in measurement during practice. The high stiffness of fixed stiffness testing instrument with gantry structure makes the automobile panel measured precisely. The finite element model was established by ANSYS in order to study the effect of load at typical work locations on strength and stiffness, and the strength of testing instrument under maximum load was also illustrated. The results showed that the displacement of the load point and the work load performed the linear growth. When the testing instrument was imposed the maximum working load, the displacement of load point was less than the measuring precision. The strength and stiffness of the testing instrument met the requirements of operation.

Abstract: The 3D design technology of the punching die of the automobile panel is discussed, and the basic thinking of the 3D die design based on UG surrounding is introduced. The parallel idea combined the 3D parameterized model with the 3D design of the die is presented. Every kind of resource library of the die design and its application are also introduced in this paper. Furthermore, the matters needing attention in the punching die design of the automobile panel are put forward in order to improve the efficiency and quality of the die design.

Abstract: Welding process of automobile panels is a key process in the manufacturing of automobile body and its quality directly impact on the appearance and quality of automobile. The causes of dimensional deviation of welded assembly could be workpieces variation, assembly tooling variation, and welding distortion. As a major source of assembly deviation, dimensional variations of workpieces have important effects on the assembly quality of automobile body. In this paper, pre-stressing was used to reflect the workpieces’ variation and the node coupling method was used in the numerical simulation to predict the deformation of assembly caused by the welding process of automobile panels. And further the computation results were listed and compared with the measured ones.

Abstract: CBR (Case-based reasoning) technique is increasingly applied in the process planning and dies intelligent design for stamping parts. In these applications, stamping parts information acts as the problem domain of cases model, while stamping process and die information as the answer domain. The similarity computation and retrieval of stamping parts are essential to the case-based design of stamping process planning and dies. In this paper, that issue is studied targeting automotive panel as the research object, and a retrieval method for similar panel parts based on the automobile panel coding is proposed. The coding structure is designed considering the automobile panel's features, especially the geometry shape features and their relationship. And the corresponding similarity calculation method is put forward. Finally, a case study is used to reveal the effectiveness of this methodology.