Design and Analysis of Automotive Vehicle Components with Composite Materials Using ANSYS 18.1

The unprecedented advancement in the automobile and the automotive sector commenced a little more than a century ago, when comfort, luxury and faster transportation became major requisites of the society. However, it is not the first time the automobile sector has gone through substantial progress to provide people with a greater taste of extravagance. It has evolved from bullock carts to the present era of electric vehicles (EVs) meanwhile providing different stages of the most powerful and intriguing fueled luxury. As the safeguarding of nature is correspondingly a major matter of concern for the subsistence of humankind the fuel engines are gradually being replaced with electric ones. Furthermore, in the beginning, due to the absence of technology and sources, all the analyses were performed practically, which hampered the economy of the project and its development. Nevertheless, the rapidly developing sector of automobile and software technology does not approve such hindrance in the way of development. Thus, new software and artificial intelligence-based technologies were developed for evaluating the practical state of affairs and behaviour of the vehicle and vehicle parts through modelling, simulation and finite element approaches. In this work, the aluminum hybrid metal matrix composite has been developed and used as the piston material of vehicle engines and subsequently analysed to study its behaviour during combustion or power stroke of the engine along with the deformations and stress occurrences on the piston head through finite element approach and study of the motion of piston cylinder setup. The 3D modelling has been done by the SOLIDWORKS platform, whereas CATIA V5 has been used for the motion analysis. During the power stroke, the thermal energy generated in the engine cylinder gets converted into mechanical power, which is provided to the vehicle axle to keep the vehicle in motion. However, at times, the energy generated cannot be utilized for the purpose of vehicle motion as the driver needs to apply brakes due to the situations ahead, which very commonly occurs in city roads during traffic or off-roading. Thus, the energy transferred is repelled by the brake power which eventually loads the brake rotor, and the situation may cause the brakes to get damaged or deformed. In this work, the deformation analysis of the vehicle parts has been done using the simulation software ANSYS 18.1 adopting a finite element analysis approach to comprehe