Structural Analysis of Tata Truck Chassis Frame Using Finite Element Analysis Tools

The biggest challenge in present earth-based vehicle industry is to come up with the growing insistent demand for higher performance, reduced weight, and prolonged life of components, all this at a minimum cost and within a small period of time. The chassis of any vehicle is the base part of the vehicles where all the main components of the vehicle such as the axles, power train, suspension, cab & trailer get assembled together. Since, the chassis is the massive component of the vehicle that is why it is often gets identified for continuous improvements. There are so many industrial and domestic sectors which uses TATA TRUCK vehicle for the transportation of logistics, agricultures, factories and other industries also. This thesis reflects the work which is performed for TATA 2518-TC Truck vehicle towards the advancement of the automotive chassis with parameters like maximum shear stress, equivalent stress and deflection of chassis along with the alternative material suggestions to reduce the chassis weight. Chassis is the structural system which is simply analysed using the finite element techniques. The analysis is carried out to find out the best chassis in terms of thickness. The model of chassis is made in Solidworks and analysis work is done on the chassis frame using the ANSYS software.