Published Paper Details:

The chassis frame forms the backbone of a vehicle, its principle function is to safely carry the maximum load for all designed operating conditions. Automotive chassis is the main carriage system of a vehicle. The chassis serves as a skeleton upon which parts like gearbox and engine are mounted. The two-wheeler chassis consists of a frame, suspension, wheels and brakes. The chassis is what truly sets the overall style of the two wheeler. Commonly used material for two-wheeler chassis is steel which is heavy in weight or more accurately in density. There are various alternate materials like aluminium alloys, titanium, carbon fiber, magnesium, etc. which are lesser in weight and provide high strength and thus can be used for chassis. This paper deals with design of two wheeler chassis frame and its weight optimization. The static loading was carried out on the chassis and the design is improving the mechanical behavior of the chassis by using alternate material while maintaining the strength. The modeling work was carried out by the CATIA V5 and analysis was done by ANSYS software. The modeling would consider the geometry characteristics and analysis would consider the geometry import, meshing, loading condition, result evaluation. Where geometry import IGS file format was followed.