Survey of optimization methods for BIW lightweight design

Abstract

The body lightweight is important to the vehicle design and development, which has become one of the main research subjects in vehicle industries and research institutes. This paper systematically expounds the background and significance of the lightweight design of automobile, and systematically expatiates the implementation method of the light weight of the vehicle from the fields of lightweight materials, body structural optimization design, molding technology and new connecting technologies. The present situation of domestic and foreign research on lightweight design is introduced at the same time. On this basis, this paper establishes the process of multidisciplinary lightweight design of vehicles, and applies a variety of simulation and modeling tools into this process. The experiment results show the effectiveness and efficiency of the method