Design and Optimization of Truck Load Body

This Paper highlights the development of Truck industry which is a major source of transportation. With an average truck travelling about 300 kilometers per day, every kilogram of truck weight is of concern to the industry in order to get the best out of the truck. The main objective of this project is to increase the payload capacity of automotive truck load body. Every kilogram of increased vehicle weight will decrease the vehicle payload capacity in turn increasing the manufacturing cost and reducing the fuel economy by increase in the fuel consumption. With the intension of weight reduction, standard truck body has been designed in Catia V5-21 and analyzed in ANSYS software. At the initial stage we are using both C-Section beams and conventional rectangular box sections to reduce the weight of the body. We are using Structural Steel and Light-weight Aluminum alloy Al 6061 T6 material by comparing both properties used to increase the payload capacity. The strength of the Truck platform is monitored in terms of deformation and stress concentration. These parameters will be obtained in structural analysis test condition environment. Accordingly necessary modifications are done so that the optimized model has a better stress distribution and much lesser weight compared to the conventional model. The results obtained by analyzing modified model are compared with standard model.