The Full Flow Simulation of Auto Centre Pillar Reinforce Plate

Abstract:

A major role of automotive engineers is to improve fuel efficiency and vehicle safety. However, it is very difficult to improve both of these requirements at the same time. So they deal with the design of structural reinforcements in hopes to improve the crush strength, but minimize the weight of the automobile body. Forming simulation has been playing increasingly important role in this field to save time and cost and the accuracy of the simulation argued against the real life results. In this paper The Auto Center pillar reinforce plate is studied by finite element method, and forming process is optimized according to full flow simulation. The simulation shows that the FEM can make the tryout process better to get high success rate and shorter time.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 490-491)
• Pages: 611-615
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.490-491.611
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Elsayed Mohamed Elsayed Idrees, Yun Jun Cai, Yu Jun Cai, Yu Qiang
• Keywords: DYNAFORM, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Sheet Metal Forming, Simulation

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