Integration of Electric Motor and Alternator in Smart Lightweight Vehicles
Current market needs call for smart vehicles, often implementing advanced technologies, leading to the incorporation of additional electronic components and systems, which in turn often lead to an increase of vehicle mass. With the ever increasing focus on the state of the world climate; the demand for more environmentally friendly technologies has never been greater. As part of the response a ?29 million project partially funded by Advantage West Midlands (AWM), and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is currently taking place. The project includes both academic partners such as Coventry University and Warwick University, in addition to industrial partners such as MIRA Ltd., Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC) and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence upon the Body In White (BIW) mass by variation of the Centre of Mass (CM) of two key components needed for a Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV); an electric motor and an alternator. The problem will be approached by means of a topology optimisation study, incorporating equivalent NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) dynamic impact loading conditions, to develop the structural loadpaths, while incorporating the aforementioned HEV components.
Christophe Bastien Jesper Christensen Mike V Blundell Mike Dickison Andrew Gittens
Faculty of Computing and Engineering, Coventry University, Priory Street, CV1 5FB, United Kingdom Safety Developnment Department, M1RA ltd, Nuneaton, CV10 0TU, United Kingdom
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics(第四届国际机械工程与力学会议)
苏州
英文
921-928
2011-08-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）