Optimal Modeling of an Elevator Chassis under Crash Scenario Based on Characterization and Validation of the Hyperelastic Material of Its Shock Absorber System

Author:

Giagopoulos DimitriosORCID,Arailopoulos AlexandrosORCID,Chatziparasidis IraklisORCID

Abstract

A wide variety of hyperelastic rubber-like materials, exhibiting strong nonlinear stress–strain relations under large deformations, is applied in various industrial mechanical systems and engineering applications involving shock and vibration absorbers. An optimal design procedure of an elevator chassis crashing on a hyperelastic shock absorber in a fail scenario, applicable in large-scale mechanical systems or industrial structures of high importance under strong nonlinear dynamic excitation, is presented in this work. For the characterization of the hyperelastic absorber, a Mooney–Rivlin material model was adopted, and a series of in-lab compression quasi-static tests were conducted. Applying a fully parallelizable state-of-the-art stochastic model updating methodology, coupled with robust, accurate and efficient Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software, the hyperelastic behavior of the shock absorber was validated under uniaxial large deformation, in order to tune all material parameters and develop a high-fidelity FE model of the shock absorber system. Next, a series of in situ full-scale experimental trials were carried out using a test-case elevator chassis, representing the crash scenario on the buffer absorber system, after a controlled free fall. A limited number of sensors, i.e., triaxial accelerometers and strain gauges, were placed at characteristic points of the real structure of the elevator chassis recording experimental data. A discrete Finite Element (FE) model of the experimentally tested arrangement involving the elevator chassis and updated buffer absorber system along with all boundary conditions was developed and used in explicit nonlinear analysis of the crash scenario. Steel material properties and the characterized updated Mooney–Rivlin material model were assigned to the elevator chassis and buffer, respectively. A direct comparison of the numerical and experimental data validated the reliability and accuracy of the methodology applied, whereas results of the analysis were used in order to redesign and optimize a new-design elevator chassis, achieving minimum design stresses and satisfying serviceability limit states.

Publisher

MDPI AG

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