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Fundamentals of Automobile Body Structure Design

This document is a table of contents for a textbook on fundamentals of automobile body structure design. It outlines 9 chapters that will cover topics such as body types and nomenclature, structural requirements, structural elements like beams and panels, design for bending, torsion, crashworthiness, vibration, vehicle integration, material selection, and mass estimation. The table of contents provides a high-level overview of the content that will be included in each chapter.

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Fundamentals of Automobile Body Structure Design

This document is a table of contents for a textbook on fundamentals of automobile body structure design. It outlines 9 chapters that will cover topics such as body types and nomenclature, structural requirements, structural elements like beams and panels, design for bending, torsion, crashworthiness, vibration, vehicle integration, material selection, and mass estimation. The table of contents provides a high-level overview of the content that will be included in each chapter.

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Fundamentals of

Automobile Body
Structure Design
Table of Contents

Contents:

Chapter 1 - The Automobile Body .......................................................... 1


1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5

Description of the Automobile Body Types ................................................ 3


Body Nomenclature ....................................................................................... 5
Body Mass Benchmarking ........................................................................... 10
The Body Structure as a System ................................................................. 11
Note on Design Philosophy ........................................................................ 12

Chapter 2 - Body Structural Requirements ............................................13


2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4

Categories of Structural Requirements...................................................... 14


The Locate and Retain Function ................................................................. 17
Locate and Retain for Front Suspension Attachment Structure ............ 20
Flow Down of Requirements from Vehicle-Level Functions ................. 30

Chapter 3 - Automotive Body Structural Elements .................................35


3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7

Overview of Classical Beam Behavior ....................................................... 36


Design of Automotive Beam Sections........................................................ 41
Torsion of Thin-Wall Members ................................................................... 50
Thin-Wall Beam Section Design in Automobiles ..................................... 70
Buckling of Thin-Walled Members ............................................................ 77
Automobile Body Panels: Plates and Membranes ................................. 100
Summary: Automotive Structural Elements........................................... 116

Chapter 4 - Design for Body Bending ..................................................119


4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5

Body Bending Strength Requirement ...................................................... 120


Body Bending Stiffness Requirement ...................................................... 123
Internal Loads During Global Bending: Load Path Analysis............... 128
Analysis of Body Bending Stiffness ......................................................... 135
Principles of Good Joint Design ............................................................... 147

Chapter 5 - Design for Body Torsion ....................................................161


5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5

Body Torsion Strength Requirement ........................................................ 162


Body Torsion Stiffness Requirement ........................................................ 163
Internal Loads During Global Torsion: Load Path Analysis ................ 167
Analysis of Body Torsional Stiffness ........................................................ 178
Torsional Stiffness of Convertibles and Framed Vehicles ..................... 192

Chapter 6 - Design for Crashworthiness ..............................................209


6.1

Standardized Safety Test Conditions and Requirements...................... 210

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Front Barrier ................................................................................................ 211
Side Impact .................................................................................................. 236
Note on Rear Impact .................................................................................. 245
Note on Roof Crush .................................................................................... 247

Chapter 7 - Design for Vibration .........................................................251


7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8
7.9
7.10

First-Order Vibration Modeling ............................................................... 252


Source-Path-Receiver Models of Vibration Systems.............................. 256
Frequency Response of a Single-Degree-of-Freedom System .............. 260
SDOF Models of Vehicle Vibration Systems .......................................... 266
Strategies for Design for Vibration ........................................................... 281
Body Structure Vibration Testing ............................................................. 283
Modeling the Body Structure Resonant Behavior.................................. 285
Vibration at Frequencies Above the Primary Structure Modes ........... 290
Note on Use of Rotating Phasors to Solve Damped
Vibration Problems ..................................................................................... 306
Note on Mechanical Impedance Technique ............................................ 308

Chapter 8 - Design for Vehicle and Styling Integration .........................313


8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
8.7

Designing the Best Body Structure........................................................... 314


Vehicle Layout ............................................................................................. 314
Exterior Body Surface ................................................................................ 326
Constraints on Body Structure from Vehicle Layout and
Exterior Surface ........................................................................................... 331
Body Structure Topology ........................................................................... 334
Load Path Design at Suspension Attachments....................................... 339
Summary ...................................................................................................... 348

Chapter 9 - Material Selection and Mass Estimation in


Preliminary Design ...........................................................................351
9.1
9.2

Materials for the Body-in-White ............................................................... 352


Preliminary Mass Analysis ........................................................................ 368

Appendices.......................................................................................381
A.
B.
C.

vi

Exercises ....................................................................................................... 381


Nomenclature .............................................................................................. 431
English & Metric Units & Typical Values for Key Parameters ............. 435

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6.3
6.4
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