HAVAL COUPE Body Lightweight Design and Attribute
Integration
Dr. Lei Shi
Technical Director
R&D of Great Wall Motor
April 15, 2015
Detroit, MI USA
Agenda
Background
Design Approach
Lightweight Design
Attributes
- NVH
- Safety
- etc.
Summary
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Overview
What we are?
- We are China’s largest SUV and pickup manufacturer, with over 30 holding subsidiaries, more than 60,000
employees, four vehicle production bases and a production capacity of 800,000 units.
- We own Haval and Great Wall brands, covering products range of SUV, passenger car and pickup.
- Our assets had amounted to 61.345 billion RBM by Dec. 31, 2014.
- We persist in focused development, uphold the brand concept of "focus, dedication and specialization"
Our products: SUV, Pickup and Sedan
SUV
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2014 SUV Top-ten Sales Ranking in China
31.59
20
15
HAVAL
25
Unit: 10, 000
Top one: HAVAL
30
23.74
16.82
14.53
13.60
12.47
11.45
10.70
10.06
10
9.87
5
- First produce economic type of SUV in domestic.
- Hover H6 got “China annual SUV prize” in 2012,
which sales so popular and even hard to meet the
purchase requirement.
HAVAL H8
HAVAL H6
HAVAL Coupe-c
0
HAVAL Coupe
HAVAL H9
HAVAL H6 Update
HAVAL H2
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Overview
What we are?
Pickup
-
Domestic sales for GW pickup gains No.1 in 14 continually years.
Together with Toyota, Ford pickup named as “World three pickup”.
Trusted by 700,000 vehicle owner, and sales for more than 100 Countries and areas.
Saloon car
-
C50
C30
C2OR
C50 Update
First made the saloon car in 2007, got No 2 in terms of sales quantity in 2011.
First pass EWVTA as Chinese self-owned saloon brand manufacture.
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Overview
What we are?
Pickup
-
Domestic sales for GW pickup gains No.1 in 14 continually years.
Together with Toyota, Ford pickup named as “World three pickup”.
Trusted by 700,000 vehicle owner, and sales for more than 100 Countries and areas.
Saloon car
-
C50
C30
C2OR
C50 Update
First made the saloon car in 2007, got No 2 in terms of sales quantity in 2011.
First pass EWVTA as Chinese self-owned saloon brand manufacture.
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Overview
What we are?
长城汽车新技术中心
Europe
GWM New R&D Center
ChinaJapan
North America
长城汽车欧洲技术分中心
长城汽车日本技术分中心
长城汽车北美技术分中心
GWM European R&D Center
GWM Japan R&D Center
GWM North America R&D Center (On-going)
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Goal of R&D
The goal of R&D activities:
Style Freeze
Data Freeze
•T/Section
•Ext/Int
•S.E.
•Feasibility
Report
•M/Section
•CAE & Physical
Test
•S.E..
•Neighbor Parts
Status
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
Overdesign
Optimumdesign
Data
Freeze
Through
CAE
verification
Reduce
Style Change &
Data Change
Underdesign
How to freeze data?
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Goal of R&D
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
The goal of R&D activities:
Design Change
Cut--off
Cut
Reach
Performance Target
within given cost and weight
Weight
+
Cost
=
Performance
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Roadmap of WR
Cost
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
Advanced Steel & Process
& More Light Material
Conventional Material & Process
Maximum use of HSS & Process
Trad. Line
D
A
Ideal Line
B
Cost
Target
C
Opt. Body Performance
Lightweight Design
Cost & Weight saving Design
CAE iteration
Optimum Design Process with
multiple iteration of CAE
Weight
Target
Weight
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Roadmap of WR
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
-A Kg
-B Kg
-C Kg
-D Kg
-E Kg
Total WR
Weight
reduction (Kg)
Strategy: Sequential effect/benefit for lightweight design
By weight
reduction
By thermal
losses reduction
By aerodynamics
resistance reduction
By secondary
weight reduction
Total FEI
Fuel efficiency
improvement
Starting
points
Efficiency benefit sequence: Mass reduction of passenger cabin and ripple effect
will lead to greater fuel efficiency and secondary mass reduction
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Roadmap of WR
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
-A Kg
-B Kg
-C Kg
-D Kg
-E Kg
Total WR
Weight
reduction (Kg)
Strategy: Sequential effect/benefit for lightweight design
By weight
reduction
By thermal
losses reduction
By aerodynamics
resistance reduction
By secondary
weight reduction
Total FEI
Fuel efficiency
improvement
Starting
points
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Strategy of WR for Body Structure
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
Predecessor
architecture
BIW mass
Right
size
For a given set of conditions &
loads, find the lightest & efficient
structure that is able to meet
design targets.
Right
topology
Right
material
Right
Design
details
New vehicle
BIW mass
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Strategy of WR for Body Structure
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
A MDO platform integrating all the vehicle attributes is developed to achieve the
weight target under CAE environments
What is MDO?
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) is a methodology for improving design of engineering
systems, e.g., automobile, aircraft, or spacecraft, in which everything influences everything else.
NVH: Torsion, Bending,
Dynamic stiffness
Offset
impact:
偏置碰
64kph
Frontal
正碰:
35mph
Madymo:
FC1-USNCAP
FC2-EuroNCAP
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Door-ring Structure
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
Hot stamping process
1. Blanking
2. Blank heat up (over 900 degrees)
3. Forming &
quenching
4. Post form
operations
Remove
Weld Line
Predecessor
HAVAL Coupe
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Roof Cross-member Design
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
Weld Line
Predecessor
HAVAL Coupe
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MDO- based Lightweight Design
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
MDO
Integration
BIW
Trimmed-body
Safety
BIW NM
Trimmed-body
VTF/NTF/IPI
Full Frontal
Bending Stiff
Trimmed-body
Acoustic Mode
40% Offset
Torsion Stiff
Trimmed-body
Bending Mode
Side Impact
BIW IPI
Trimmed-body
Torsion Mode
Roof Crush
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Front Seat
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
To achieve 3.0 Kg weight saving per
vehicle
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Closure-Liftgate
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
To achieve 1.71 Kg weight saving per
vehicle while meeting design target
requirements
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Lightweight Index
Weight
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
0
LWI
3.96
3.74
3.67
0 Kg HAVAL Coupe
Predecessor
0
Competitor Predecessor HAVAL Coupe
-21.3 Kg
Weight reduction
Lightweight index
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Attributes Improvement
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
Attributes Available Space (AAS):
VehicleAttributes − T arg etAttributes
AAS = mean ∑
T arg etAttributes
Predecessor HAVAL Coupe
0
Predecessor HAVAL Coupe
0
+8%
AAS
+7%
-22%
-18%
-26%
-29%
Safety attributes
NVH attributes
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Weight Reduction
Background | Design Approach | Lightweight Design | Attributes
Weight reduction summary:
Weight
0
Seat
IP
-1
0 Kg HAVAL Coupe
Predecessor
Weight
0
Closures
-5.09
-6.11
-21.3
BIW WR
Total: 12.2 Kg
To achieve 33.5 Kg weight reduction
w/o using light alloys
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Summary
• Successfully developed a platform to integrate all vehicle attributes to
achieve weight targets while meeting design requirements
• Weight reduction:
Totally achieve 33.5 Kg weight reduction w/o using light alloys
Lightweight index has been improved 7.3% (through optimization of the
body structure) as well as outperformed the competitor
• Vehicle attributes:
Body rigidity-top class body rigidity performance through improvement
of joint efficiency in all areas of the cabin
Also, safety and NVH attributes are improved (w/ 7-8% enhancement)
• Almost 40 RBM cost saving per vehicle with structural adhesive usage
optimization
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Thanks!
Questions/Comments?
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