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Automotive Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (5): 778-788.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2022.05.016

Special Issue: 车身设计&轻量化&安全专题2022年

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Life Cycle Assessment of City Bus Body Based on Structural Lightweighting

Tong Wang1,Yiqun Du2,Yisong Chen1(),Rimei Han3   

  1. 1.School of Automobile,Chang’an University,Xi’an  710064
    2.International Education School,Chang’an University,Xi’an  710064
    3.Xi’an Rail Transit Group,Xi’an  710021
  • Received:2021-11-10 Revised:2021-12-18 Online:2022-05-25 Published:2022-05-27
  • Contact: Yisong Chen E-mail:chenyisong_1988@163.com

Abstract:

The finite element model for a 12 m monocoque hybrid power city bus is created and the effects of body structure optimization on the energy-saving and emission reduction of the bus are analyzed through strength, stiffness and modal analyses as well as structural lightweighting and life cycle assessment. The results show that compared with original body skeleton, the mass of structurally optimized body skeleton reduces by 52.5 kg and both the strength and stiffness meet the requirements under bending and ultimate torsion conditions with a good natural vibration characteristic. As for the full life cycle, after lightweghting the mining resource consumption reduces by 0.4E04kg Sb-eq., fossil energy resources consumption reduces by 0.7E04MJ and the overall environment influence factor reduces by 0.42E11, equivalent to a reduction rate of 3.81%, 4.46% and 4.56% respectively.

Key words: city bus, finite element analysis, modal analysis, lightweight analysis, life cycle assessment