Investigation of the Impact of a Vehicle Front Hood Striker Geometry on Static Stiffness Performance
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The front hood striker assembly, integral to the hood structure, experiences bending due to various factors such as repeated opening and closing, road impacts, and aerodynamic forces. This paper presents a numerical and experimental study of various striker assembly geometries, focusing on their effects on static stiffness performance. A static load is applied to generate displacement and calculate stiffness as the load-to-displacement ratio. It was discovered that by increasing the bending angle of the striker wire, an increase in section moment of inertia is achieved for the Z direction and an increase in the static stiffness on this particular direction, while for the Y direction a stiffness loss is observed for angles bigger than 95 degrees. Therefore, by improving the shape and the bending angle of the striker wire a good level of stiffness can be achieved while reducing the thickness and overall weight of the striker reinforcer.
Source: Vehicles
Institution: Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași
Language: English
Subfield: Mechanical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,819
OpenAlex ID: W4405372529