The participation of the PSA Finite Element Engineering (Brazilian Structural Simulation Engineering) in the vehicle weight reduction proposals in order to reduce pollutants emissions levels 2010-36-0267
A really important characteristic of the OEM's (Original
Equipment Manufacturer) that arrived in Brazil during the last
decade is that all of them launched vehicles models that were
conceived, designed and developed abroad, normally in the Company
Headquarters. The first effect of this tendency affects certain
technical specifications such as raw materials or even those
components that were not validated for the local market conditions.
The majority of the technical specifications are over dimensioned
in relation to current local regulations in the Brazilian Country.
According to Pascoal (2007), another effect is that these vehicles
have an end of the product life cycles sooner than the Brazilian
branch offices. This condition implies that even after the end of
production of these vehicles in the European factories, these
models will continue in the production line at the Brazilian
Factories for several years (in some cases). The production
continuation of these vehicle models in South America have
stimulated the creation of a local procedure inside the OEM's,
allied with the use of new available numerical methods - most
modern of what the existing ones at the time of conception of these
vehicles in Europe: the study of simulations applying newer and
cheaper raw materials (less thicker or lighter), but that still
preserve the main technical specifications defined by the OEM or by
the effective regulations in the country. The main purpose of the
application of these new technical proposals is to turn these
vehicles even more economically profitable during its extension of
commercialization for the local market, but, mainly, to reduce the
weight of these vehicles aiming to consequently reduce the
pollutants emissions levels. In this context, this work has as
objective to present some practical examples of these numerical
simulations of the vehicles that are in serial production at PSA
Peugeot Citroen Factory in Porto Real, Rio de Janeiro, exploring
the main impacts of the technical proposals for weight & cost
reduction.
Citation: Pinto, E., Silveira, R., Pascoal, E., and Chiarelli, P., "The participation of the PSA Finite Element Engineering (Brazilian Structural Simulation Engineering) in the vehicle weight reduction proposals in order to reduce pollutants emissions levels," SAE Technical Paper 2010-36-0267, 2010, https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-36-0267. Download Citation
Author(s):
Elton Cesar Vieira Pinto, Ruimark Creazzola Silveira, Erik Telles Pascoal, Paulo Mauricio Chiarelli
Affiliated:
PSA Peugeot Citrogen do Brasil Automoveis Ltda., PSA Peugeot Citroën do Brasil Automoveis Ltda.
Pages: 8
Event:
SAE Brasil 2010 Congress and Exhibit
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
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