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Article history: Go-Kart design and development helps in implying the theoretical knowledge into the practical aspect. It
Received 3 July 2020 also helps to learn about various parameters that can be altered and implied to try to improve the per-
Accepted 21 July 2020 formance of the kart. Go-kart is of various types namely internal combustion engine (IC) powered,
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Electric driven, solar powered and Hybrid. This project is aimed to convert an IC engine Go-kart into
an Electric driven kart, the Frame of the IC engine kart requires a single mount as it needs only Engine
Keywords: and it is developed using SOLIDWORKS, whereas in Electric driven it is a combination of Battery,
Go-kart
Motor and Controller and hence it requires a large number of mounts and cross members to support
Electric battery
Deformation
the components, the conversion of IC powered engine frame into an Electric driven needs some alteration
IC engine to support the components and a new frame was developed using SOLIDWORKS. Both frames are anal-
ANSYS ysed using ANSYS for different types of impacts namely front, side and rear in accordance with the load
SOLIDWORKS distribution that acts in the frame and the deformation results are compared.
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Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Confer-
ence on Newer Trends and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering: Materials Science.
1. Introduction 2. Frame
Go-kart is a small racing vehicle with no suspension and rarely 2.1. Frame material
used with differential [1–4]. Karting is often used as a free time
sport and it comes under Formula 9 category [5–8]. Go-kart is of The material used is AISI 1020 carbon steel for our frame
various types such as Internal combustion engine, Electrical pow- because of its high tensile strength, best weld ability, machinability
ered, Solar Go-kart and Hybrid Go-karts. Nowadays due to extinc- and high toughness [21,22]. The chemical composition of the
tion of Hydrocarbons and increasing pollution Green concept is material is as follows Table 1.
becoming popular and the world is expected to switch to com-
pletely Electric sourced vehicles [9–14]. 2.2. Design OF chassis frame for IC engine
This work aims to convert an existing IC engine Go-kart into an
Electric powered by making changes in the frame to accommodate Frame is designed using SOLIDWORKS 2016 to achieve best
electrical components and to study the deformations that occurs optimum geometry with less design errors Fig. 2.1.
during the conversion [15–20]. Both IC and Electric frames defor-
mations are compared. 2.3. Frame safety analysis
⇑ Corresponding author. The structural integrity of the frame was verified by comparing
E-mail addresses: [email protected], [email protected] the analysis results with the Standard values of the material. Anal-
(N.K. Chandramohan). ysis was conduct by use of finite element analysis FEA on ANSYS
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.504
2214-7853/Ó 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Newer Trends and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering:
Materials Science.
Please cite this article as: N. K. Chandramohan, M. Shanmugam, S. Sathiyamurthy et al., Comparison of chassis frame design of Go-Kart vehicle powered by
internal combustion engine and electric motor, Materials Today: Proceedings, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.504
2 N.K. Chandramohan et al. / Materials Today: Proceedings xxx (xxxx) xxx
2.4. Result
1. Front impact
2. Rear impact
3. Side impact Fig. 2. Meshed view of frame.
2.3.1. Pre-Processing
Meshing
Mesh quality: Fine mesh
No. of Nodes: 304,369
No. of Elements: 124,866
Fig. 2.2.
2.3.2. Calculations
The impacts are purely elastic collision and the velocities for the
impact test were taken according to International Journal for
Mechanical and Industrial technology.
F ¼MA
A ¼ ðV U Þ=T
Please cite this article as: N. K. Chandramohan, M. Shanmugam, S. Sathiyamurthy et al., Comparison of chassis frame design of Go-Kart vehicle powered by
internal combustion engine and electric motor, Materials Today: Proceedings, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.504
N.K. Chandramohan et al. / Materials Today: Proceedings xxx (xxxx) xxx 3
Fig. 6. Equivalent stress of side impact. Fig. 11. Load acting on the frame at rear impact.
Please cite this article as: N. K. Chandramohan, M. Shanmugam, S. Sathiyamurthy et al., Comparison of chassis frame design of Go-Kart vehicle powered by
internal combustion engine and electric motor, Materials Today: Proceedings, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.504
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3. Conclusion
Please cite this article as: N. K. Chandramohan, M. Shanmugam, S. Sathiyamurthy et al., Comparison of chassis frame design of Go-Kart vehicle powered by
internal combustion engine and electric motor, Materials Today: Proceedings, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.504
N.K. Chandramohan et al. / Materials Today: Proceedings xxx (xxxx) xxx 5
Please cite this article as: N. K. Chandramohan, M. Shanmugam, S. Sathiyamurthy et al., Comparison of chassis frame design of Go-Kart vehicle powered by
internal combustion engine and electric motor, Materials Today: Proceedings, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.504
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