Reprojeto da manga de eixo dianteira para veículo Baja SAE

Abstract

The Baja SAE project focuses on encouraging students from participating universities to demonstrate and improve the knowledge acquired throughout the course, through the baja vehicle competition. Competition that evaluates the team in different ways, such as the vehicle's performance in dynamic and endurance tests, in addition to the presentation of the projects carried out by the team. Knowing this, the improvement of all car components is sought, for this work the object of study was the front steering knuckle of the vehicle of the Bajagual team. Through theoretical methods the forces imposed on this component were measured, the redesigned model was directly compared with the steering knuckle already used by the team through the finite element method. Thus resulting in a new part submitted to tension values more conservative than the old part, and still, presenting a mass reduction of 30%, obtained by changing the material of the steering knuckle, reaching the main goal of weight reduction (sic).