DETERMINATION OF VEHICLE COMPONENTS FATIGUE LIFE BASED ON FEA METHOD AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS

Year 2012, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 133 - 146, 01.06.2012

Arif Senol Sener

Abstract

In this study, construction and standardization of a track for performing fatigue and reliability test of light commercial vehicles is described. For the design and process verification of the company’s vehicles one test track is defined. A questionnaire was used to determine the average usage of light commercial vehicles in Turkey. Fatigue characteristics of Turkish roads were determined by analyzing fifty different roads and this article focuses on defining the load spectrum and equivalent fatigue damage of the leaf spring resulting from the accelerated test route. Fatigue analysis and estimated lifespan of the part were calculated using Finite Element Analyses and verified by the Palmgren-Miner rule. When the customer profile is taken into consideration; Turkish customer automotive usage profile, the aim of usage of this kind of vehicle (LCV), fatigue characteristics of Turkish roads for this vehicle were determined and around Bursa one accelerated test tracks were formed for the reliability and fatigue test for the related company, linear analysis executed on the FEA of the spring was more convenient were obtained

Keywords

Turkish automotive customer usage, Leaf spring, Finite element, Fatigue analysis, Palmgren-Miner rule

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