Design and Analysis of Two Wheeler Composite Chassis Frame

The chassis frame forms the backbone of a vehicle. Automotive chassis is the main carriage system of a vehicle. The two-wheeler chassis consists of a frame, suspension, wheels and brakes. Commonly used material for two-wheeler chassis is steel. Steel material makes the chassis frame heavy and thereby increasing overall weight of vehicle. Weight reduction is the crucial issue in today’s automotive industries since it greatly affects the fuel efficiency of vehicle. Composite materials providing outstanding solution to this problem. The present work here attempts to incorporate the change in material of chassis of two wheeler vehicle which could provide higher strength to chassis and have lesser weight of the chassis rendering it a higher life of operation. The new proposed material are E- Glass, S- Glass and Carbon Epoxy whose material properties are compared with conventional material of chassis used that is steel. The chassis of two wheeler is geometrically modeled in CAD software which is CATIA V5 and analysis done on ANSYS workbench.