Most of recent research on carbody lightweighting has focused on substitute material and new processing technologies rather than structures.However,new materials and processing techniques inevitably lead to higher costs.Also,material substitution and processing lightweighting have to be realized through body structural profiles and locations.In the huge conventional workload of lightweight optimization,model modifications involve heavy manual work,and it always leads to a large number of iteration calculations.As a new technique in carbody lightweighting,the implicit parameterization is used to optimize the carbody structure to improve the materials utilization rate in this paper.The implicit parameterized structural modeling enables the use of automatic modification and rapid multidisciplinary design optimization(MDO)in carbody structure,which is impossible in the traditional structure finite element method(FEM)without parameterization.The structural SFE parameterized model is built in accordance with the car structural FE model in concept development stage,and it is validated by some structural performance data.The validated SFE structural parameterized model can be used to generate rapidly and automatically FE model and evaluate different design variables group in the integrated MDO loop.The lightweighting result of body-in-white(BIW)after the optimization rounds reveals that the implicit parameterized model makes automatic MDO feasible and can significantly improve the computational efficiency of carbody structural lightweighting.This paper proposes the integrated method of implicit parameterized model and MDO,which has the obvious practical advantage and industrial significance in the carbody structural lightweighting design.
How to simulate interior aerodynamic noise accurately is an important question of a car interior noise reduction. The unsteady aerodynamic pressure on body surfaces is proved to be the key effect factor of car interior aerodynamic noise control in high frequency on high speed. In this paper, a detail statistical energy analysis (SEA) model is built. And the vibra-acoustic power inputs are loaded on the model for the valid result of car interior noise analysis. The model is the solid foundation for further optimization on car interior noise control. After the most sensitive subsystems for the power contribution to car interior noise are pointed by SEA comprehensive analysis, the sound pressure level of car interior aerodynamic noise can be reduced by improving their sound and damping characteristics. The further vehicle testing results show that it is available to improve the interior acoustic performance by using detailed SEA model, which comprised by more than 80 subsystems, with the unsteady aerodynamic pressure calculation on body surfaces and the materials improvement of sound/damping properties. It is able to acquire more than 2 dB reduction on the central frequency in the spectrum over 800 Hz. The proposed optimization method can be looked as a reference of car interior aerodynamic noise control by the detail SEA model integrated unsteady computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and sensitivity analysis of acoustic contribution.
