Finite element analysis of lamination of carbon fibre with aluminium (CARAL) of bumper beam in automotive industry using solidworks® software

Automotive industry is one of the biggest sectors which contribute to our
economy. The consumption of fuel is very high in this industry specifically in petrol
and diesel. Hence, the discharge of greenhouse gasses also high and this can give the
bad effect to our environment. Thus to reduce this problems, the weight of a vehicle
must be reduced with using the light weight of material. The purpose of this study is
to make the improvement in automotive industry which currently still using the same
materials. This research investigate the improvement in the design and advance
material of a bumper beam with increase the performance of the bumper beam,
improve absorbing capacity during impact load and increase the protection of the front
car component. Advanced material use in this research is lamination of Carbon Fibre
and Aluminium (CARAL) which will undergo Finite Element Analysis (FEA) by
SolidWorks® software and will be compare with current materials of the bumper beam
such as Steel, Aluminium and Magnesium. This advance material, CARAL also will
be compare with previous study which used same materials and same parameters but
for 235200N. Clearly this study have two parameters which is use different force
regarding of four forces apply, 235200N, 335200N, 435200N and 535200N on
different materials. At the end of the research, the percentage difference of the
improvement of bumper beam between stress analysis and displacement analysis of
CARAL and current materials and also previous study is identified. CARAL bumper
already showed the best material in improvement of bumper beam in automotive
industry beside Steel, Aluminium and Magnesium.