Vehicle Seat Design Durability and Strength Assessment Using Finite Element Analysis

Abstract

Advanced production engineering is a technique to construct an object by considering all technical aspects which includes durability in addition to safety. In any automobile production approach, there could be a great possibility to provide safety to the vehicle occupant only if safety parameters have been designed effectively. Heavy Commercial passenger vehicles like buses carry number of passengers at a time, and in case of accident no. of humans can die altogether. These accidents may be from the Front, rear or from the lateral side. Among these collisions, the front collision is the most severe one. In the front collision, passengers may get injuries via hitting the seat shape hooked up simply subsequent the front to them. In order to design these seats nicely to keep away from those accidents, the government additionally enforced some rules associated with seat design. To pass these mandatory regulations suggested by the government, a well designed seat

Structure needs to be processed to the government agency to get the test certificate. In this case advanced simulation tool like FEA can help upto a great extent to get the optimum design along with optimum weight. In the current research work, finite element analysis is used to investigate the load taking capacity of the passenger seat. The performed test also simulated and the final design is proposed with great reduction in weight also along with provision of maximum safety to the passengers.