TY - JOUR
TI - Comparison of side collision analyzes of electric vehicle and conventional vehicle chassis
AU - Cimendag Muhammed
AU - Yilmaz Ulu Eylem
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2023
VL - 27
IS - 4
SP - 3229
EP - 3240
PT - Article
AB - Conventional vehicles use fossil fuels, which leads to the emission of CO,  causing environmental harm. Due to the damage caused by this gas to the  environment and human health, the interest in hybrid or electric cars that  can use RES has increased. Parts like powertrains, which are found in  conventional vehicles but not in electric ones, have caused design  disparities in their respective chassis. This study aims to investigate the  load distribution on the chassis of electric and conventional vehicles in  the event of a side collision. After conducting a literature review and  engineering calculations, a chassis was designed for both types of vehicles  using the SOLIDWORKS program. The completed chassis was analyzed at a speed  of 40 km/h, taking the average of the speed limits determined in the side  impact test and polar impact test in the EXPLICIT module of the ANSYS  WORK-BENCH program. Due to the load generated during the collision, a  deformation of 150.72 mm occurred in the electric vehicle chassis and 403.78  mm in the conventional vehicle chassis. As a result of the deformations,  stress of 1228.2 MPa occurred in the electric vehicle chassis base and  1000.2 MPa occurred in the conventional vehicle chassis base. These stresses  exceeded the yield limit on the designed chassis bases, causing a permanent  shape change in both vehicles, but no rupture occurred.