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Automotive Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (5): 789-798.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2022.05.017

Special Issue: 车身设计&轻量化&安全专题2022年

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Lightweight Design of Vehicle Tail-door Inner Panel Made of Injection Molded Short Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite

Zeyang Li1,Zhao Liu2,Ping Zhu1()   

  1. 1.Shanghai Jiao Tong University,State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration,Shanghai  200240
    2.School of Design,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai  200240
  • Received:2021-12-01 Revised:2021-12-16 Online:2022-05-25 Published:2022-05-27
  • Contact: Ping Zhu E-mail:pzhu@sjtu.edu.cn

Abstract:

In this paper, a lightweight design procedure including the parallel optimization of material and structure is proposed for the inner panel of tail door made of injection-molded short-fiber-reinforced polymer composite in a car. A layered material model is built with consideration of the layered distribution feature of short fiber, on the basis of which a parameterized constitutive model for material is put forward to rapidly predict its mechanical performance when its parameters are changed. An extraction and mapping method for material parameters is proposed according to the distribution features of fiber orientation, so effectively enhancing the accuracy of structural analysis. Considering the design variables of material and structure, combined with Kriging surrogate model and boundary-searching based improved particle swarm optimization algorithm, a lightweight design procedure for composite tail door inner panel is proposed. As a final result, the parallel optimization of material and structure is fulfilled while assuring the design requirements for various working conditions with a lightweighting result of 10.5% mass reduction achieved.

Key words: vehicles, tail-door inner panel, injection-molded short-fiber-reinforced polymer composite, parameterized constitutive model, parallel optimization, lightweight design