Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) has been successfully utilized in automotive industries. CAE numerically estimates the performance of automobiles and proposes alternative ideas that lead to the higher performance without building prototypes. Most automotive designers, however, cannot directly use CAE due to the sophisticated operations. In order to overcome this problem, we proposed a new concept of CAE, First Order Analysis (FOA). The basic ideas include (1) graphic interfaces using Microsoft/Excel to achieve a product oriented analysis (2) use the knowledge of the mechanics of materials to provide the useful information for designers, and (3) the topology optimization method using beam and panel elements. In this paper, outline of FOA and application are introduced
First Order Analysis for Automotive Body Structure Design - Part 1: Overview and Applications
Sae Technical Papers
SAE 2004 World Congress & Exhibition ; 2004
2004-03-08
Conference paper
English
First Order Analysis for Automotive Body Structure Design - Part 1 : Overview and Applications
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2004
|First order analysis for automotive body structure design - part 1: overview and applications
Automotive engineering | 2004
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 2004
|SAE Technical Papers | 2004
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 2004
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