Published Paper Details:

Front can bumper not only provide aesthetic look to the car, but also it provides safety to the car passenger. It is generally made up by plastic, rubber, fiber material to withstand up to certain amount of impact. On higher impact it should collapse and should not create any damage on other car parts, body as well as passenger. Maximum impact force must be absorbed by the bumper. There are other several reasons why we use the plastic material for manufacturing car bumper. The cost of the bumper is also an important factor which should be considered while the manufacturing. But the ultimate aim of the car bumper is to provide the maximum safety to the car passenger and other parts by absorbing maximum impact shock. While development of the bumper several tests are to be taken with different materials. Like vibration test, Crash test, Load test, Buckling Test etc. Results of these tests decide the usability of the bumper. In this paper different bumper materials are to be tested with FEA Tool known as ANSYS 2020 R1. For this purpose, Maruti Wagon R car bumper is chosen with different materials from which it could be manufactured by considering all safety aspects. Virtual CAD Model is taken and imported into ANSYS Software to perform required analysis virtually. Further results are compared with each other and based on generated results, best suitable material is suggested to provide maximum safety with minimum cost.