• Somnath B. Sawant
• Kiran C. More

The main goal of automotive industry is lightweight, low cost, reliable and most accurate product design of the vehicle. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) plays a very significant role in product development as it decreases prototyping cost as well as the cycle time for vehicle development. Cars have different types of doors such as side hinged doors, sliding doors and back doors system. This IS14225:1995 standard specifies the requirements for side doors including emergency door locks and side door retention components including latches, hinges and other supporting means, fitted on cars, light and heavy commercial vehicles to minimize the likelihood of occupants being thrown out from the vehicle as a result of any impact. This standard does not apply to those vehicles which are not normally provided with a door. In this study, concept of door hinge is generated in CAD and is evaluated in FEA for static loading as per IS14225:1995.Design optimization is done to meet the regulatory requirement specified in the regulation. FEA Results are compared with physical test results of automotive front door hinge.

Automotive,Doors,Hinges,Latches,FEA.

"DESIGN & OPTIMIZATION OF AUTOMOTIVE DOOR HINGE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.4-10, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCA06002.pdf

"DESIGN & OPTIMIZATION OF AUTOMOTIVE DOOR HINGE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp4-10, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCA06002.pdf