Slides, Additional Notes, Handout, and Others

2000 Winter

MEAM599-B Automotive Body Structure

A GM Sponsored Course in the University of Michigan

Most of the files posted here are prepared by Abobe Acrobat 4. It is strongly recommended to use Acrobat Reader 4. If you do not have this, please download this software from Abode Web Site.

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Microsoft Powerpoint Sildes & Excel Examples, Additional Notes

• Class 1 (January 6, 2000) : Introduction
• Don's Excel File (February 15, 2000) : Dr. Malen's Excel Work Sheet for Minimizing Mass
• Beam Element in FEA (February 17, 2000) : Note on Beam Bending FE Analysis

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• Topics in Mid-Term (February 18, 2000) : Topics in the Midterm Examination

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• Topology:Package Requirement (March 23, 2000) : A pdf file (slide) to describe package requirement for topology study of automotive bodies
• Finite Element Method for Automotive Bodies (March 9, 2000) : Slide for FEM
• Topology Optimization (March 23, 2000) : Slide for General Theory of Topology Design and Optimization

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Homework

    If you have any questions regarding to the grade of your homework, please contact with the grader directly. His e-mail address is  [email protected] . Since many of you are not in University of Michigan Campus, you may need contact with him through e-mail.

• Homework #0 : Review of Undergraduate Material to Prepare the Course
  • Solution of Homework #0 : Just for Review of Your Background
• Homework #1 : Bending Related
  • Solution of Homework #1 : Bending Related
• Solutions of Homework #2 : Bending Related
• Solutions of Homework #3 : Torsion Related
• Solutions of Midterm Examination : Midterm Examination
• Solutions of Homework #4 :
• Solutions of Homework #5 : Topology Optimization

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• TopoDanuki A Topology Optimization Software : Executable Software for Topology Optimization of Three-Dimensional Frame Structures in Window95/98 System Using Microsoft EXCEL Software. Files are zipped by WINZIP. Thus you have to download this into your disk, and unzipped. Then you can find executable program TopoDanuki.

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Additional Materials #1 : Benchmarking of Representative Bodies

• TOYOTA Camry
• NEON
• FORD Mondero
• LEXUS LS400
• MERCEDES C28

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Additional Material #2 : Crashworthiness Study Movie

• Movie#1

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Useful Software

• CAPTURE98 : To capture image, this may be useful.

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Topology Optimization Selective Web-Sites

made by Professor Martin Bendseo

Technical University of Denmark

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Academic:

The TOPOPT homepage of DTU : You can find here an interactive design optimization tool-kit, tutorials etc.

Structural Optimization at the Institute of Structural Mechanics / University of Stuttgart.

FIDO-Solid at the University of Swansea

Commercial:

Altair OptiStruct

Quint's OPTISHAPE

MSC/CONSTRUCT TOPOLOGY

CSA/NASTRAN topology optimization

VMA Engineering