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Lightweight Design of Mine-Use Cast Front Axle Housing Based
on Topology Optimization
HU Yulong, ZHAO Dan, WU Jiang, JIANG Jinglan, YU Rui, SUN Lei
2025, 50(14):
55-59.
DOI: 10.16638/j.cnki.1671-7988.2025.014.011
A certain mining vehicle enterprise, in response to the customer's demands for cost
reduction, weight reduction, and improvement of fuel economy performance, has decided to attempt
to adopt topology optimization technology to conduct lightweight and cost-reducing design for the
current batch matching of mining cast front axle housings. Based on benchmarking the initial scheme
and performance indicators as well as ensuring the assembly relationship, with the maximum
stiffness of the front axle housing as the optimization objective, the structural material path for
casting the front axle housing is determined, and the structural scheme design of the front axle is
carried out. The newly designed front axle housing scheme, after analysis and verification, iterative
optimization, and elimination of local stress concentration, determined the final optimization scheme.
The results show that under the premise of stress and deformation being less than the existing scheme,
the mass is reduced by 35 kg, and the weight is reduced by 9.6%. The successful application of
topology optimization technology in the lightweighting of cast front axle housing is verified through A certain mining vehicle enterprise, in response to the customer's demands for cost
reduction, weight reduction, and improvement of fuel economy performance, has decided to attempt
to adopt topology optimization technology to conduct lightweight and cost-reducing design for the
current batch matching of mining cast front axle housings. Based on benchmarking the initial scheme
and performance indicators as well as ensuring the assembly relationship, with the maximum
stiffness of the front axle housing as the optimization objective, the structural material path for
casting the front axle housing is determined, and the structural scheme design of the front axle is
carried out. The newly designed front axle housing scheme, after analysis and verification, iterative
optimization, and elimination of local stress concentration, determined the final optimization scheme.
The results show that under the premise of stress and deformation being less than the existing scheme,
the mass is reduced by 35 kg, and the weight is reduced by 9.6%. The successful application of
topology optimization technology in the lightweighting of cast front axle housing is verified through A certain mining vehicle enterprise, in response to the customer's demands for cost
reduction, weight reduction, and improvement of fuel economy performance, has decided to attempt
to adopt topology optimization technology to conduct lightweight and cost-reducing design for the
current batch matching of mining cast front axle housings. Based on benchmarking the initial scheme
and performance indicators as well as ensuring the assembly relationship, with the maximum
stiffness of the front axle housing as the optimization objective, the structural material path for
casting the front axle housing is determined, and the structural scheme design of the front axle is
carried out. The newly designed front axle housing scheme, after analysis and verification, iterative
optimization, and elimination of local stress concentration, determined the final optimization scheme.
The results show that under the premise of stress and deformation being less than the existing scheme,
the mass is reduced by 35 kg, and the weight is reduced by 9.6%. The successful application of
topology optimization technology in the lightweighting of cast front axle housing is verified through A certain mining vehicle enterprise, in response to the customer's demands for cost
reduction, weight reduction, and improvement of fuel economy performance, has decided to attempt
to adopt topology optimization technology to conduct lightweight and cost-reducing design for the
current batch matching of mining cast front axle housings. Based on benchmarking the initial scheme
and performance indicators as well as ensuring the assembly relationship, with the maximum
stiffness of the front axle housing as the optimization objective, the structural material path for
casting the front axle housing is determined, and the structural scheme design of the front axle is
carried out. The newly designed front axle housing scheme, after analysis and verification, iterative
optimization, and elimination of local stress concentration, determined the final optimization scheme.
The results show that under the premise of stress and deformation being less than the existing scheme,
the mass is reduced by 35 kg, and the weight is reduced by 9.6%. The successful application of
topology optimization technology in the lightweighting of cast front axle housing is verified through A certain mining vehicle enterprise, in response to the customer's demands for cost
reduction, weight reduction, and improvement of fuel economy performance, has decided to attempt
to adopt topology optimization technology to conduct lightweight and cost-reducing design for the
current batch matching of mining cast front axle housings. Based on benchmarking the initial scheme
and performance indicators as well as ensuring the assembly relationship, with the maximum
stiffness of the front axle housing as the optimization objective, the structural material path for
casting the front axle housing is determined, and the structural scheme design of the front axle is
carried out. The newly designed front axle housing scheme, after analysis and verification, iterative
optimization, and elimination of local stress concentration, determined the final optimization scheme.
The results show that under the premise of stress and deformation being less than the existing scheme,
the mass is reduced by 35 kg, and the weight is reduced by 9.6%. The successful application of
topology optimization technology in the lightweighting of cast front axle housing is verified through bench fatigue tests and reliability verification in the mining area.
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