Designing an Innovetive Modular Platform for Sports Car Using the Generative Design Method

Traditional methods, where chassis components are tailored for each vehicle type, lack flexibility and efficiency. The concept of current modular platforms, allows the reuse of components across different models, reducing production costs and enhancing adaptability. But, in current situation these solutions are not common in sports cars segment. The research delves into the challenges and opportunities posed by modular platforms in the context of sports cars, highlighting their potential impact on driving dynamics, design aesthetics, and future innovations. The project focuses on a modular platform approach, providing diversity while maintaining a standardized design sections, emphasizing interchangeability of components besides flexibility, using cutting-edge design methods. This study addresses to create a modular platform suitable for different drivetrain and powertrain configurations, with iterative sprints targeting lightweight and high-stiffness designs by using generative design method. In addition to improving design outcomes, efforts have been made to enhance creativity by employing the steps of the generative design method within the existing workflow (IDeS), and collaboration with the Agile method variant, Scrum, has been established to filter the results, which is crucial for project development. Moreover, it has been applied to an alternative modular platform created with new parts obtained through the generative design application. The results obtained have been evaluated in terms of the model's mechanical properties. These new parts are not only geometrically more efficient but also capable of yielding the same mechanical results even when different materials are used. The parts defined to generate decided with crash tests on rear-mid and front modular platform layouts separately. The results have been compared and it has found that stress distributions are similar which means the parts that we have generated are sufficient in new design such as shapes, weight, and mechanical properties.