某越野车顶盖密封性能特征分析与优化

解决整车的淋雨密封性问题是整车研发、制造过程中的一个系统性、复杂性的工程,然而目前密封的机理与解决方法尚不完善。基于此,文章介绍了一种越野车型漏水问题的研究方法与解决思路,提出了动态水流路径分析法与DOE实验设计结合的策略。对车身结构、相关零部件的密封性能进行分析评估,确定异常水流路径及影响因子,通过正交实验以及均值分析得到最优化的密封条唇边降低高度、硬度、长度参数,并在批量生产过程中进行充分的验证,改善了顶盖间密封系统,将整车的淋雨一次通过率从62.5%提高至99.3%。     

Automated manufacture of optimised shape-adaptive composite hydrofoils with curvilinear fibre paths for improved bend-twist performance

Composite marine propellers improve hydrodynamic efficiency by inducing bend-twist coupling and allowing for passive pitch changes. One critical limitation, however, is the extent to which a composite propeller blade can deform and cause a pitch change without incurring structural failure. Recent numerical studies showed that curvilinear tows could improve the structural response of a composite blade by lowering its deflection or stress and strain required to induce a pitch change, but no experimental validation has been carried out before. The current study, thus, presents the manufacture of composite sandwich hydrofoils made with steered tows using automated fibre placement and validates the curvilinear tow benefits. Two hydrofoils were optimised with straight and curved fibre path layups, respectively and were manufactured for mechanical testing. The manufacturing complications arising from steering curvilinear tows in a three-dimensional convex mould are also discussed in the paper. The study found that significant tow buckling occurred near the tool cavity edge due to excessive steering radius during manufacture. The follow-up structural cantilevered tests showed that the experimental results were consistent with the FE predictions despite the presence of some manufacturing defects. The experiment agreed that the hydrofoil manufactured with curved tows achieved a similar tip twist but a significant reduction in deflection and critical principal strains compared to the hydrofoil made with straight tows. The use of a foam core reduced the overall weight of the sandwich hydrofoils by about 25% compared to that of a fully-carbon composite hydrofoil, and the numerical analysis showed that the core shear failure induced by transverse shear stresses was unlikely to occur.