Analysis of Ladder Chassis of Eicher 20.16 Using FEM

The Automotive chassis is considered as the backbone of the vehicle. On chassis different parts are provided with strength, an important consideration in chassis design is to have adequate bending stiffness for better handling characteristics. So, strength and stiffness are two important criteria for the design of the chassis. This paper related with work performed towards the static structural analysis of the truck chassis. Structural systems like the chassis can be easily analyzed using the finite element techniques. So a proper finite element model of the chassis is to be developed. The chassis is modeled in ANSYS. Analysis is done using the same software.