Abstract: The modern automotive industries are replacing acceletor and clutch pedal by lightweight materials such as polymer composites, plastic, aluminium and its alloys, etc. The purpose of new design is without change in material reduction weight, cost, and improvement in corrosion resistance.
This paper is carried out on a commercial vehicle casted brake pedal lever. The finite element modeling and analysis of a brake pedal lever has been carried out. It includes one brake pedal at its actual mounting position in the vehicle. The FE model of the brake pedal assembly has been generated in CATIA or Pro-E and imported in ANSYS for stress analysis and then optimizing it with the help of Optistruct software, which are most popular CAE tools. The FE analysis of the brake pedal lever has been performed by discretization of the model in finite nodes and elements and refining them under defined boundary condition. Bending stress and deflection and reduced weight are the target results. A comparison of both i.e. baseline and optimized model FEA results have been done to conclude.
Keywords: Optimization, Topology, Stress, FEA.
Title: Optimization of Brake Pedal
Author: Bhagyashri Kurkure, Mr. D. B. Sadaphale
International Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Technology
ISSN 2348-7593 (Online)
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