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International Journal of Vehicle Performance

International Journal of Vehicle Performance (IJVP)

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International Journal of Vehicle Performance (2 papers in press)

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  • Occupational safety enhancement of EQ10 electric quadricycle through frontal rails optimisation   Order a copy of this article
    by Mohammad Abasi, Abolfazl Khalkhali, Seyed Amirhossin Ahmadi, Mohammadreza Mohammadi 
    Abstract: Electric vehicles (EVs) have recently garnered significant attention due to their environmental friendliness, decreased running cost and superior performance. Owning to the exponential growth of electric vehicle production over the past decade, safety inspections of EVs have become more crucial. Since the effect of the restraint system on the occupants safety has been already investigated, herein, the impact of the crumple zone characteristics on head, neck and chest injury has been comprehensively studied. In this paper safety assessment of electric quadricycle named EQ10 during the frontal crash condition has been considered. The safety parameters including HIC, Nij and chest deflection has been evaluated as three output parameters based on ECE-R94 standard. Taguchi and ANOVA approaches also have been applied to optimise safety parameters. The achieved data affirms that in the optimised aluminium structure, HIC has decreased by 32%. In the optimised steel, HIC has decreased by 33%.
    Keywords: L6e electrical quadricycle class; frontal crash; simulation and optimisation; safety evaluation.
    DOI: 10.1504/IJVP.2025.10073662
     
  • A simulation method of wheel biaxial fatigue test for passenger cars using external drum   Order a copy of this article
    by Jintao Luo, Hongfei He, Yingchun Shan, Xiandong Liu, Yizhuo Wang 
    Abstract: Compared to radial and cornering fatigue tests, the biaxial fatigue test more accurately reproduces the in-service stress state of a wheel by applying simultaneous radial and lateral loads. This study proposes a novel finite element simulation method for passenger car wheels, incorporating both tyre dynamic rolling via steady-state transport analysis and the effect of tyre-wheel interference fit. The method is applied to a composite aluminium alloy wheel with different materials for the spoke and rim. Results indicate that stress distributions from the proposed and a simplified method are similar. However, the proposed method yields a higher maximum rim stress by up to 25.684% under certain loads, which is closer to the measured results by referring to the literature. This indicates that the proposed method is able to provide more accurate strength evaluation results of the passenger car wheel in biaxial fatigue test.
    Keywords: wheel strength; biaxial fatigue test; finite element simulation; tyre rolling; steady-state transport analysis; interference fit.
    DOI: 10.1504/IJVP.2025.10074116
     

 

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