Design and Development of Lightweight Pivot Arm Using Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) for Heavy Commercial Vehicles 2021-26-0255
In a current competitive automotive market, weight and cost optimization is the need of an hour. Therefore it is important to explore use of alternative material which has less weight, low manufacturing cost and better strength. This paper presents methodology to achieve cost & weight reduction through use of Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) instead of alloy forging. ADI casting has lower density, physical properties at par with alloy forgings and lower manufacturing cost. Pivot arm is the one of the critical component of twin axle steering system which transfers the hydraulic torque from steering gearbox to second forward axle via linkage system. In order to design lightweight pivot arm, existing chromium alloy steel material is replaced with the Austempered ductile iron (ADI). Pivot arm is designed and validated digitally as well as bench test and results are found to be meeting cost and weight targets. Weight reduction of 11.6 % achieved using ADI in place of chromium alloy steel and also part is meeting the structural and durability criteria.
Citation: SAHARE, V. and N, G., "Design and Development of Lightweight Pivot Arm Using Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) for Heavy Commercial Vehicles," SAE Technical Paper 2021-26-0255, 2021, https://doi.org/10.4271/2021-26-0255. Download Citation
Author(s):
VRUSHABH UMESH SAHARE, GANESH KUMAR N
Affiliated:
Tata Motors, Ltd., Tata Motors Ltd
Pages: 8
Event:
Symposium on International Automotive Technology
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Materials properties
Chromium alloys
Commercial vehicles
Lightweighting
Steel
Alloys
Iron
Steering systems
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