scholarly journals Opportunities in Optimizing Car Door Weight

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Suraj Shinde ◽  
Himadri Majumder

Car door is an important part that is used for the protection of passengers from side collisions and also for the comfort of entering and leaving the car. Car doors weigh around 2% of total car weight. Conventional car doors are made from steel as it is sturdy. But it also contributes to the increment of the car weight. As scientific researchers are getting more advanced, finding out new materials as a substitute for conventionally used steel becomes more evident. Advancement in manufacturing and joining technologies pave the way to encouraging us to search for new improvement opportunities in car door weight optimization. Side impact collision of a car is the most hazardous as it directly hits the driver which causes injuries or death all over the world. Vehicle is one the medium of the terribly hazardous crashes causing injuries and death annually around the word. In this research paper, the most important parameters including materials, loads, stresses and deformation were studied to find out opportunities of car door weight optimization. Reduction in car weight means less fuel consumption which enables automobile industries to reduce carbon emission levels of a car. But the safety of passengers is the main priority which demands a light-weight as well as strong material that can sustain collision impact. The aim of the report is to compare the structure of different materials used in car door with currently used material. The designing of the car door is done using computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application (CATIA) software. Impact analysis is conducted on the door using ANSYS Workbench software by varying the materials. S-glass epoxy UD alloys become promising substitutes because of their satisfactory mechanical properties and specifific strength.

In this article deals the crash investigation of Bumper for different materials using ANSYS Workbench. Bumper is a vital parameter which is used as safety protection for passengers from accidents by means of impact energy absorption from collision environment. The ultimate focus of this work is material optimization for Bumper by performing impact analysis with the help of ANSYS. The entire analysis process comprises of two stages, which are conceptual design of Bumper and preparation of Bumper for numerical analysis. The optimization of this work is based on structural parametric results, in which total deformation, equivalent stress induced are primarily involved. . The reference component’s modeling process is completed by means of CATIA, and then the impact analysis is carried by ANSYS Workbench 16.2, in which the materials used for bumper are Steel and Glass fiber based composite with the constant boundary conditions [speed = 13.3 m sec-1]. Finally suitable material is finalized for car bumper.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Song ◽  
Xiaogang Lin ◽  
Zhijia Peng ◽  
Shibin Xu ◽  
Lifeng Jin ◽  
...  

Biosensors can convert the concentration of biological analytes into an electrical signal or other signals for detection. They are widely used in medical diagnostics, food safety, process control, and environmental monitoring fields. In recent years, new schemes of stable biosensor interfaces have attracted much attention. Interface design is a vital part of biosensor development, since its stability can be directly related to the quality of sensing performance such as sensitivity, stability, and linearity. This review summarized the latest methods and materials used to construct stable biosensor interfaces and pointed some future perspectives and challenges of them. From the literature, we found that nanomaterials, polymers, and their composites such as chitosan, cellulose, and conducting polymers are the most common materials used in the biosensor interface design. Apart from materials, there are increasing developments in monolayer membrane techniques, three-dimensional constructions, and other interface techniques. This review is a study of the latest progress in biosensor interface stability solutions, which may provide some references and innovative directions of biosensor interface design for researchers in biosensor fields and encourage people to further explore new materials and methods.


2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Lalita El Milla

Scaffolds is three dimensional structure that serves as a framework for bone growth. Natural materials are often used in synthesis of bone tissue engineering scaffolds with respect to compliance with the content of the human body. Among the materials used to make scafffold was hydroxyapatite, alginate and chitosan. Hydroxyapatite powder obtained by mixing phosphoric acid and calcium hydroxide, alginate powders extracted from brown algae and chitosan powder acetylated from crab. The purpose of this study was to examine the functional groups of hydroxyapatite, alginate and chitosan. The method used in this study was laboratory experimental using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy for hydroxyapatite, alginate and chitosan powders. The results indicated the presence of functional groups PO43-, O-H and CO32- in hydroxyapatite. In alginate there were O-H, C=O, COOH and C-O-C functional groups, whereas in chitosan there were O-H, N-H, C=O, C-N, and C-O-C. It was concluded that the third material containing functional groups as found in humans that correspond to the scaffolds material in bone tissue engineering.


2017 ◽  
Vol 907 ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
Maria Stoicănescu ◽  
Eliza Buzamet ◽  
Dragos Vladimir Budei ◽  
Valentin Craciun ◽  
Roxana Budei ◽  
...  

Dental implants are becoming increasingly used in current dental practice. This increased demand has motivated manufacturers to develop varieties of product through design, but also looking for new materials used to improve surface characteristics in order to obtain a better osseointegration. But the increase in the use of implants goes to a consequent increase in the number of failures. These failures are caused either by treatment complications (peri-implantitis), by fatigue breakage under mechanical over-stress, by defective raw material, or due to errors during the insertion procedures. Although they are rare, these complications are serious in dentistry. Before to market a dental implant to clinical practitioners, the product is validated among other determinations in number of biocompatibility research. Raw material issues, details about its structure and properties are less published by the scientific literature, but all this are subject of a carefully analysis of the producers. Breaking of dental implants during surgical procedures, during the prosthetic procedures or during use (chewing, bruxism, accidents, etc.), is the second most common cause of loss of an implant after consecutive peri-implantitis rejection. Although the frequency of this type of failure for a dental implant is much smaller than those caused by the peri-implantitis, a detailed study of broken implants can explain possible causes. The use of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in the study of the cleave areas explain the production mechanism of cleavages, starting from micro-fissures in the alloy used for the production of dental implants. These micro-fissures in weak areas of the implant (anti-rotational corners of the polygons, etc.) could generate a serious risk of cleavage first time when a higher force is applied.


2018 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 01013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Pacewicz ◽  
Anna Sobotka ◽  
Łukasz Gołek

Three dimensional printing is a promising new technology to erect construction objects. Around the world in every moment a new prototypes constructions are made by using this method. Three dimensional printing is taken into account as technology which can be used to print constructions in automated way on the Moon or Mars. The raw materials, which can be used with three dimensional printing have to fulfil basic requirements for those which are used in construction. That means that components of printing mortars are made from ingredients easily accessible in area nearby construction site and can be reusable. The cost of printing building objects due to that requirements is comparable to costs of traditional building, which are currently available. However additive techniques of printing needs a dedicated mortars for printer supplying. Characteristic for such mortars is: setting time, compressive strength, followability in the printing system, shape stability of every printed layer, controlling the hydration rate to ensure bonding with the subsequent layer, reusable capabilities, easily accessible raw materials, cost of such mixtures shouldn’t be too high in order to keep 3D printing competitive for traditional ways of building, mortar components should be recyclable and printing process should not influence negatively on an environment and people. All properties of printing mortars are determined by the device for additive application method. In this paper review of available materials used for three dimensional printing technology at construction site is presented. Presented materials were analysed in terms of requirements for building materials technology. Due to the lack of detailed information’s in available literature, regarding to the properties of raw materials, the results of this analysis may be used in the designing of new concrete mixtures for the use in three-dimensional printing technology for construction.


2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (08) ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Mike Vasquez

This article reviews the challenges for companies while adopting three-dimensional (3D) printing technology. A big challenge for companies figuring out whether they need to invest in 3-D printing is the different types of printing systems available in the market. At a high level, there are seven different families of 3-D printing processes. Each of the seven technologies is differentiated by the materials used and how the materials are fused together to create three-dimensional objects. Another barrier is that most companies have not yet found it viable to put the processes in place to incorporate the change in design, engineering, and manufacturing production that is required. Not only capital funds are needed to purchase machines, but to effectively use the technology to create a sellable product, one also needs to have a targeted product line and clear vision of the ways that 3-D printing can help lower material costs, save energy, and simplify manufacturing and assembly.


Author(s):  
Kemal Cagatay Selvi

In this study, static stress-deformation analyzes (in terms of material strengths) were presented comparatively through a FEM-based simulation of the subsoiler and paraplow legs designed in a three-dimensional CAD environment. In general, both soil tillage implements with high energy requirements are being used to remove the soil compaction problem on agricultural land. The operating conditions of the implements were simulated using a FEM-based simulation program (Ansys-16). The results of static analysis obtained from the Finite Element Method (FEM) were evaluated on some different materials used in the shank design of both implements and the results were given comparatively. According to the analysis results, the maximum equivalent stress was in paraplow shank foot 122 MPa which is used C-60 material and the maximum vertical dis-placement is 0,00014 mm in the position of shank foot of subsoiler


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Ge ◽  
Yanzhi Wang ◽  
Francesco Carraro ◽  
Weibin Liang ◽  
Morteza Roostaeinia ◽  
...  

<p>Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are known for their versatile combination of inorganic building units and organic linkers, which offers immense opportunities in a wide range of applications. However, many MOFs are typically synthesized as multiphasic polycrystalline powders, which are challenging for studies by X-ray diffraction. Therefore, developing new structural characterization techniques is highly desired in order to accelerate discoveries of new materials. Here, we report a high-throughput approach for structural analysis of MOF nano- and sub-microcrystals by three-dimensional electron diffraction (3DED). A new zeolitic-imidazolate framework (ZIF), denoted ZIF-EC1<a>, </a>was first discovered in a trace amount during the study of a known ZIF-CO<sub>3</sub>-1 material by 3DED. The structures of both ZIFs were solved and refined using 3DED data. ZIF-EC1 has a dense 3D framework structure, which is built by linking mono- and bi-nuclear Zn clusters and 2-methylimidazolates (mIm<sup>-</sup>). With a composition of Zn<sub>3</sub>(mIm)<sub>5</sub>(OH), ZIF-EC1 exhibits high N and Zn densities. We show that the N-doped carbon material derived from ZIF-EC1 is a promising electrocatalysis for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The discovery of this new MOF and its conversion to an efficient electrocatalyst highlights the power of 3DED in developing new materials and their applications. </p>


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