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Automotive Engineering ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 832-839.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2020.06.019

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Lightweight and Crashworthiness Design of Vehicle BodyFront-end Based on Multi-cell Structure

He Liangguo1, Zhao Jie1, Gu Xianguang2   

  1. 1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009;
    2. Intelligent Manufacturing Institute, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009
  • Received:2019-06-04 Online:2020-06-25 Published:2020-07-16

Abstract: In order to meet the requirements of lightweight and crashworthiness of vehicle body, its front-end is optimized by combining material replacement with structural improvement. Based on the vehicle frontal crash model verified by test, an aluminum front-end model is established with its crashworthiness compared with steel counterpart. For enhancing the crashworthiness of aluminum front-end, various multi-cell cross sections with different cell numbers are designed, and their energy absorption characteristics are analyzed under three-point bending and axial crushing conditions. A multi-objective optimization scheme is used to optimize the parameters of multi-cell front end structure. The results show that the aluminum multi-cell structure optimized can improve vehicle crashworthiness while significantly reducing the mass of front-end

Key words: body lightweighting, crashworthiness, multi-cell structure, multi-objective optimization