• Manoj Kumar
• Dr. Prashant S. Kadu

Truck industry is a major source of transportation in India. With an average truck travelling about 300 kilometers per day, every kilogram of truck weight is of concern to the industry in order to get the best out of the truck. The main objective of this project is to increase the payload capacity of automotive truck body. Every kilogram of increased vehicle weight will decrease the vehicle payload capacity in turn increasing the manufacturing cost and reducing the fuel economy by increase the fuel consumption. With the intension of weight reduction, standard truck body has been designed in CATIA V5 R21 software and analyzed in ANSYS software. Using by different-different cross-section as per requirements and beams were used instead of conventional rectangular box sections to reduce the weight of the body. The strength of the Truck platform is monitored in terms of deformation and stress concentration. These parameters will be obtained in structural analysis test condition environment. For reducing the stress concentration the concept of beams of uniform strength is used.

Truck Body, CATIA V5 Software, Static Structural analysis, FEA, ANSYS.

"DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF TRUCK LOAD BODY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no.18-19, December-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREJ06005.pdf

"DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF TRUCK LOAD BODY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no. pp18-19, December-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREJ06005.pdf