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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2013.14.9.4171

Structural Design of the Outer Tie Rod for an Electrical Vehicle  

Seo, Bu-Kyo (Graduate school, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A University)
Kim, Jong-Kyu (DTechnical Center, Central Corporation)
Lee, Dong-Jin (DTechnical Center, Central Corporation)
Seo, Sun-Min (DTechnical Center, Central Corporation)
Lee, Kwon-Hee (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A University)
Park, Young-Chul (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.14, no.9, 2013 , pp. 4171-4177 More about this Journal
Abstract
Outer tie rod is lighter than other, but there is the trend item weight and the number is increasing due to vehicle performance improvement. Thus, to improve vehicle fuel efficiency, weight lightening is essential. Therefore, this research performed the finite element analysis to investigate the structural performance of the outer tie rod for an electrical vehicle. This study was performed as the preliminary study for a lightweight design of the outer tie rod. The weight of outer tie rod was optimized by adopting the steel material and applying the trial and error method. The strengths due to durability and buckling should be considered in the structural design of an outer tie rod. Furthermore, the meta model-based optimization was applied to obtain its lightweight design, leading to 9 % weigh reduction.
Keywords
Buckling; Finite Element Method; OTR(Outer Tie Rod); Steering System;
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