Invertis Journal of Science & Technology
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 4

Design of bus body structure by modal analysis

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr T Thimmaiah Institute of Technology, Visvesvaraya Technological University, KGF, Karnataka, India

*Corresponding author email id: manjunatha.babu@rediffmail.com

Online published on 28 January, 2019.

Abstract

Transports are the preeminent method of road transportation. The look of the vehicle body depends mainly on driving the execution requirement underneath varying sorts of stacking and managing conditions separated from those of the street conditions. The model investigation moreover modal basic associate analysis of an enunciated urban transport body was completed with the Finite Element Method. In this project, the bus body was dealt with modal analysis with different boundary and loading conditions. Modal analysis was carried out for the bus body made up of Aluminium with shell and without shell to determine the deformation and corresponding six natural frequencies were obtained on self weight consideration of the material. The expected result was predicted in a body with shell which yields minimum deformation and it was found to be optimum compared to without shell.

Keywords

Modal analysis, Aluminium, Mode shape, Deformation, Self weight, Shell, Frequency