A Review on Structural Analysis of Articulated Vehicle Chassis

In the current scenario automobile engineering and transportation vehicles require safety and energy efficiency. Articulated vehicle is vehicle which has a permanent or semi-permanent pivoting joint in its construction allowing the vehicle to turn more sharply. These vehicles are always used for transportation of heavy load, so bear this heavy load chassis of vehicle plays important role. The purpose of this work is to simulate and forecast the 'structural response' of the chassis, in terms of stress and displacement, under several loading and constraining conditions, which aim at reflecting the actual duty cycle of the vehicle. For particular load will chassis satisfy the requirements or not is going to be analysed under this project. Optimization of existing chassis to reduce the weight of trailer frame is one of the objective of this work. Structural analysis of chassis will be done in one of the analysis software and comparing those results with the analytical results.