Faruq Avero Azhar

Politeknik Negeri Jember

Dwi Djoko Suranto

Politeknik Negeri Jember

Alex Taufiqurrohman Zain

Politeknik Negeri Jember

Cahyaning Nur Karimah

Politeknik Negeri Jember

Dicky Adi Tyagita

Politeknik Negeri Jember

Aditya Wahyu Pratama

Politeknik Negeri Jember

Dety Oktavia Sulistiono

Politeknik Negeri Jember

Mochammad Nuruddin

Politeknik Negeri Jember

Mochammad Irwan Nari

Politeknik Negeri Jember

DOI: https://doi.org/10.19184/rotor.v16i2.44222 

ABSTRACT 

Electric vehicles are one of the potential solutions to address environmental issues and dependence on fossil fuels in the transportation sector. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis of the electric vehicle frame is very important. Finite Element Analysis had become an industrial standard for designing and analyzing vehicle structures. This study was to analyze the behavior of a three-wheeled electric vehicle frame when the load acting on the chassis using Finite Element Method. Simulation was done to determine the design performance of the chassis using SolidWorks software. The value of stress, maximum strain, and displacement with static loading of the frame structure on three-wheeled electric vehicles presented in this article. The three-wheeled electric vehicle was expected to have a large carrying load capacity, so this simulation is very necessary to predict any damage. The simulation results show that the maximum stress value on the chassis frame when 1500 N given by load is 0.0244 MPa. The minimum and maximum strain values generated were 5.26×10-13 and 1.27×10-7, respectively. While the displacement value obtained 6.208×10-4 mm. The results of failure analysis with von mises criteria, it can be concluded that the frame design is good enough to withstand the given load.

Keywords: Electric vehicle, three-wheeled, failure analysis

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