Weight Reduction Study of a Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Block Manufactured from Cast Iron
Ümit Kirenci Ali Serdar Vanlı Anıl Akdoğan
AbstractEmission standards getting harder and tougher day by day, therefore this challenge causes a decrease in diesel engine and increase in hybrid systems usage. But, for heavy duty industries; diesel engines are still very economic and feasible because of today’s technological developments and market competitions. In this direction, research and development process of heavy duty diesel engines continues on process optimisation and weight reductions. In this study, weight reduction and design development is applied for a tractor diesel engine block which manufactured for prototype to gain an industrial advantage. New light weight design is optimized according to manufacturing parameters and moulding requirements via casting simulation software. In additional, a commercial finite element-based analysing program is used to simulate the mechanical properties of the new design, and to predict possible deviations by comparing the first and final design.