Car Door Hinge Finite Element Analysis

My Role

  • • Modeled door hinge in Hypermesh using 3D solid elements meshing with 2D shell elements skin for accurate stress recovery.
  • • Applied proper boundary constrain conditions on hinge back and distributed loading on the shell "washer" for analysis.
  • • Justified analysis result by splitting original mesh and comparing stress extrapolation result.

 

Demonstration

Documentation

Time and Location

Nov. 2014 - Dec. 2014

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US

 

Team Members

Fangzhou Xia