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This paper presents the design and verification procedure of a race car chassis, built respecting the rules of an international competition dedicated to young researchers from all universities of the world. We used CAD/CAE methods. The designed chassis has been subjected to various analyzes, corresponding to the different stresses during operation: braking, cornering, asymmetric loads, frontal impact, side impact, roll-over, torsional stiffness, buckling, bending, modal analysis and transient analysis. A total of 3 versions of chassis have been analyzed to extract the best results. After analysis, we could choose materials, pipe size, and chassis structure. This project demonstrated that the proposed chassis design meets the needs of the engineering competition regulations.
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This article contains the results of research conducted in preparation of license’s thesis of the first author and was realized within the Partnership Programme in priority domains - PN-II, which runs with the financial support of MEN-UEFISCDI Romania, Project no. 227/2014, System for Diagnosis and Therapy of Spine Diseases (SPINE).
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Furnea, D.I., Butnariu, S. (2017). New Approaches in Designing a Race Car Chassis for an Engineering Competition. In: Chiru, A., Ispas, N. (eds) CONAT 2016 International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering. CONAT 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45447-4_12
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