Author(s)

Shourui Xuan ¹, Jianping Gao ¹, Qianfeng Zhang ¹, Chao Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Mechanical and Marine Ocean Engineering, Beibu Gulf University, Qinzhou, Guangxi, 535011, China

Corresponding Author

Qianfeng Zhang

ABSTRACT

Taking the lifting lug of the automobile exhaust pipe as the research object, the geometric modeling of the lifting lug of the automobile exhaust pipe was established. The lifting lug was analyzed by finite element method using Ansys software, and the lifting lug structure was optimized according to the topology optimization method. The 20% area of the lifting lug model was taken as the optimization area, and the new lifting lug model was established for verification. The verification results showed that the maximum stress and maximum deformation of the optimized lifting lug were increased to some extent. However, it still meets the requirements for lifting lug materials.

KEYWORDS

Lifting lug, finite element analysis, topology optimization

CITE THIS PAPER

Shourui Xuan, Jianping Gao, Qianfeng Zhang, Chao Zhang, Finite Element Analysis and Optimization Design of Automobile Exhaust Pipe Lifting Lugs. Journal of Engineering Mechanics and Machinery (2023) Vol. 8: 1-6. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jemm.2023.080301.

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