Paper Info
Title
Automatic concept model generation for optimisation and robust design of passenger cars
Abstract
A fully automated method of structural optimisation for the body in white structure is presented. The body in white is a technical term for the car body without windows and closures. The iterations in the optimisation loop comprise the following steps: fully parameterised design creation, automated meshing and model assembly, parallel computation and evaluation. For this purpose several free and commercially available software applications were combined, including: SFE concept, Hypermesh, Perl, Matlab, and Radioss. The optimisation was conducted using Genetic Algorithms (GA), which are ideally suited to solve problems with solution spaces that are too large to be exhaustively searched. The viability of the method is demonstrated for a vehicle component model of a front bumper system utilizing both material and geometry related properties as design variables.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.advengsoft.2006.08.031
Advances in Engineering Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
finite element method,passenger car,design variable,automatic concept model generation,parametric modelling,parameterised design creation,genetic algorithms,automated meshing,vehicle engineering,white structure,structural optimisation,robust design,optimisation loop,sensitivity analysis,automated method,sfe concept,model assembly,vehicle component model,car body,body in white,genetic algorithm,parallel computer,exhaustive search,component model
Closure (computer programming),Mathematical optimization,MATLAB,Computer science,Finite element method,Software,Body in white,Vehicle engineering,Genetic algorithm,Perl
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
11-12
Advances in Engineering Software
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.74
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Hilmann150.74
M. Paas250.74
A. Haenschke350.74
Thomas Vietor451.75