Chassis ANSYS

This chassis ANSYS is one of several Static Structural setups I did while on the team. I took on this FEA just prior to welding the chassis. I used ANSYS Static Structural Beam Elements to provide accurate, quick results. This analysis must be done right as we cannot compete at competition if our frame design is unsafe. The preliminary ANSYS that was done by another had quite a few issues that we were not able to explain. Instead of spending time trying to diagnose these novel ANSYS issues, I took her geometry and remade the chassis in SolidWorks before transferring it into SpaceClaim myself and creating my setups. My results were free from the pervious issues and gave logical, expected results.

Below is an example of the front landing setup and results.