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Title: |
Lightweight Industrial
Trailer By Using Composite Material - A New Concept Design |
Authors: |
Federico
Ceresoli, Andrea Buffoli |
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2020). ECMS 2020 Proceedings
Edited by: Mike Steglich, Christian Muller, Gaby
Neumann, Mathias Walther, European Council for Modeling and Simulation. DOI: http://doi.org/10.7148/2020 ISSN:
2522-2422 (ONLINE) ISSN:
2522-2414 (PRINT) ISSN:
2522-2430 (CD-ROM) ISBN: 978-3-937436-68-5 Communications of the ECMS , Volume 34, Issue 1, June 2020, United Kingdom |
Citation
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Federico Ceresoli,
Andrea Buffoli (2020). Structural Analysis On Lightweight
Industrial Trailer By Using Composite Material - A New Concept Design, ECMS 2020 Proceedings Edited By: Mike Steglich, Christian Mueller, Gaby Neumann, Mathias
Walther European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2020-0243 |
DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.7148/2020-0243 |
Abstract: |
This paper
presents a new concept of industrial vehicle trailer frame, suitable for some
categories of vehicles, in order to reduce their weight. This allows an
increase of the payload and a reduction of the fuel consumption and the
pollution emissions. Usually, the structural frame of an industrial vehicle
trailer has a ladder shape,in
this work, the torsional stiffness of a typical
ladder frame, evaluated by FEM analysis, will be the reference for the design
of the new frame made of different materials like steel and composite
material. For those cases, we have studied a new concept of structure, made
by a single central hollow beam. The use of a composite material for the central
beam allows a weight reduction of the 70% compared to the ladder steel frame
and an increase of modularity. Moreover, even if the construction of the
composite frame is more expensive than the classical frame, it is possible to
repay the composite frame during the first 2/3 years thanks to the reduction
of fuel consumption due to the weight reduction. |
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