Date of Award
Winter 2013
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering
Keywords
Automotive engineering, Mechanical engineering
Supervisor
Minaker, Bruce
Supervisor
Johrendt, Jennifer
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
An analytical elasticity model is developed for laminated cylindrically anisotropic cylinders subjected to extension, bending, pressure, torsion, and transverse shearing. The model predicts the elastic response of thin or thick walled tubes as well as cylinders, and accounts for all elastic coupling present in the aforementioned loading cases. This model is incorporated into analysis software that predicts the linearelastic response of a composite automotive anti-roll bar. The user may input the bar's two-dimensional geometry, fibre-layup, diameter, and material properties. A filament-wound composite anti-roll bar is designed to act as a lightweight drop-in replacement for the high-performance steel anti-roll bar that is thoroughly benchmarked herein. A mass reduction of 63% is observed when comparing the structural composite bar design to the existing steel bar.
Recommended Citation
Doody, Michael, "Design and development of a composite automotive anti-roll bar" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5040.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5040