IUT Supermileage Team: December 2007

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The first supermileage team in Iran

Introduction

Shell Eco-marathon for the first time in Asia

We are less than a year away from the first Shell Eco-marathon in Asia. Come 8 - 10 July
2010, Malaysia will be the first country to host the event in this region. The Sepang
International Circuit, home to the Malaysian leg of the Formula One Championship and
World Motorcycle Grand Prix, has been chosen to be the home ground of this challenge.
Shell Eco-marathon is not your usual auto race. Participants are evaluated based on
creativity and innovativeness in meeting the energy challenge. Simply put, the team that
designs and builds a vehicle that uses the least amount of energy to travel the farthest
distance wins the competition.

Shell Eco-marathon Asia

IUT Automotive Group

The IUT Automotive Group has been established in 1379 A.H. under the supervision of IUT automotive committee, for taking part in student racing competition and doing industrial projects in the field of automotive, inside and outside the country. The group’s activities began with cooperation of some students and the department of mechanical engineering of ISFAHAN University of technology (IUT).
You can have more information by following this address
www.mech.iut.ac.ir/modules/research (student teams)

Competition

The Supermileage® competition provides engineering and technology students with a challenging design project that involves the development and construction of a single-person, fuel-efficient vehicle. Vehicles are powered by a small four-cycle engine. Students have the opportunity to set a world fuel economy record and increase public awareness of fuel economy.

Considering lack of fuel and gasoline problems particularly in Iran, we decided to prove: if we obey some simple principles in our designs, and select more optimized systems, parts and materials we will see a great decreasing in fuel consumption

Shell Eco-marathon

The Shell Eco-marathon is an educational platform that encourages innovation, reinforces conservation and fosters the development of leading technology for greater energy efficiency.
Design, build and drive a vehicle using the least amount of energy

Shell eco-marathon europe(2008, 22-24 May) our competition

shell eco-marathon Americas

shell eco-marathon UK

For more information, please visit shell website

SAE Supermileage Competition

The traditional ‘Supermileage’ is an annual SAE student engineering competition. The event takes place every year in Marshall, Michigan, at the Eaton Proving Grounds. Students compete against teams from across Canada, USA, Latin America and even India.
The next SAE Supermileage competition will be held from June 3-4th, 2008.

The official competition rules can be found on the SAE website at:
http://www.sae.org/students/superrules.pdf.

Team

2010 IUT Supermileage Team

Faculty Advisor

Dr.Alireza Fadaei Tehrani

Team Leader

Amir Golmakani

Projrct Managment Team

Sepideh Kordestani
Maryam Arasteh

Engine Team

Farzad Taherian (Haed of engine team)
Jafar Asgharian
Arman Alizadeh
Mina Mohammadi
Mohammad Hadi Ghafuorian
Amir Hossein Tavangar Rad
Sajjad Naghdi
Reza Aabedi
Hassan Ali Ghaed Amini
Amir Reza Karimi
Amir Reza Hashemi

Clutch

Ali Riahi

Electronic Team

Kusha Marashi (Head of electironic team)
Sorur Ghorbani

Manufacturing Team

Hossein Andalib
Sajjad Naghdi
Mohammad Hadi Ghafuorian

2009 Team

Hamid Rahimi ( Team Manager )
Mahdi Karimi ( Technical Manager )
Hossein Amooei
Amir Golmakani
Ehsan Rezaei
Ehsan Adeli
Hasan Ali Ghaed Amini
Amir Hosein Haji Agha Memar
Maral Mahdad
Afsaneh Golmakani

2008 Team

Hamid Rahimi( Team Manager )
AmirGolmakani ( Technical Manager )
Hossein Amooei
Mehran Salehi
Ehsan Rezaei
Mohammad Shafiei
Mohammad Ali Keshti Ara
Fatemeh Mobasheri

Car

ARIA 2008
The First Vehicle Designed & Constructed by IUT Supermileage Team

This project has started since April 2007. The most important concept in designing and building the vehicle was to optimize the fuel consumption. In other hand it was tried to obey the rules of 2008 Shell Eco-Marathon competition.

This is a brief description for the ARIA:

Year of the project: 2007-2008
Length: 2950mm
Height: 670 mm
Width: 750 mm
Net Weight: 34 kg
Engine: A modified Single Cylinder Honda GX35 - Fuel Injection System - Max. Of RPM: 7000 - 2hp power – Max of torque: 2 N.m – Volume: 148 cc – compression ratio: 8:1 – Modeled and analyzed by the GT Suite software.
Transmission System: CVP hub with a continuous range of gear ratios between 0.5 and 1.75 which makes the driver able to change the gear ratio when he wants and how much he wants. The power is coming from the engine to the driver wheel via a chain and sprocket mechanism and multiplied by the ratio the driver determined by the CVP manual control switch.
Frame: An Al.7075 structure – 8 kilograms – Constructed by TIG welding – Structural analysis in ANSYS software.
Body: Drag coefficient: 0.12 Calculated with ANSYS CFX software – 3 layers of Carbon Fiber constructed by a hand CMM process for the mold. The mold is made from MDF sections with just 16 mm of thickness.
Equipped with a monitoring system to display the fuel consumption at any moment.
Adjustable steering system which made the driver able to select his/her desire position. Modeled and analyzed by MSC ADAMS and SIM Designer Software.

This vehicle was presented in 2008 Shell Eco-Marathon event. It was candidate for the 2 special awards: ECO-Conception and Technical innovations awards but did not win these awards finally.

Although fortunately the team has won the social activity award which related to some management affairs and moderating the team at Nogaro motor circuit and the presentations have presented by the team members. It was a satisfactory result as the first experience.