Design For Affordability -Composite Running Board Mahindra and Mahindra Limited

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Gawande, Gawande, author.

Contributor:

Bheda, Virendra

Welukar, Dinesh D.

Conference Name:

Symposium on International Automotive Technology 2015 (2015-01-21 : Pune, India)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2015

Summary:

AbstractLight weighting is the Current trends in automotive to achieve better fuel economy which helps for meeting fuel economy standards and to offset the higher fuel prices. Thus there is a need to develop composite running board which is light weight and structurally sound enough to meet the performance. The present paper provides a composite running board assembly for an automobile. The running board assembly includes a board, an insert body and a plurality of brackets. Upon stepping of a passenger on the board, the board transfers load on the insert body which subsequently transfers the load to the plurality of brackets thus facilitating even distribution of the load on the automobile body. This paper also put lights on the use of improved TRIZ application - an approach to inventive problem solving for designing highly affordable and light weight running board. The cost and weight reduction achieved with innovative design is about 40 % and 35 % comparing to existing cost and weight

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Publisher Number:

2015-26-0070

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