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Chassis on the vehicle serves as the main weight support vehicle. Designing a precise chassis will give optimal results between the safety level and the size of the construction, so that finite element simulation analysis is required to know how strong the chassis sustains the load on it. The purpose of this research is to get the result of chassis simulation on UM electric car when getting the loading by using ANSYS 18.1 software. As for the step this study started from chassis modeling using Autodesk Inventor Professional 2018 software and finite element simulation using static structural feature in software ANSYS 18.1. From the simulation result obtained Equivalent Stress 59,983MPa, Equivalent Elastic Strain 33,25x10-5 mm / mm Total Deformation 2,43mm and safety factor 3,55.

In hot conditions and with various parameters, it has been found several cracks and wear in the hot rolling process due to several factors including von mises stress and plastic strain which is affected by the size of the roller diameter and thickness of the specimen. Modeling and optimization using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) are chosen in this study to determine the optimum parameter design. The effect of roller diameter and thickness of specimens on equivalent stress von mises and plastic strains on the hot rolling process were studied using RSM. Central Composite Design (CCD) with two factors and three levels which are part of the RSM used to present mathematical models. Based on the results of RSM the optimum value obtained is on the roller diameter of 577.1389 mm and the thickness of the specimen 8.5786 mm.

This study aimed to enhance the properties of aluminium-silicon (Al-Si) alloys by adding zinc oxide as a reinforcing material. This study was a type of pre-experimental design called the one-shot case study, in which sample groups subjects were given treatments and then observed. The steps included melting the aluminium-silicon in a furnace at 900° C, adding a certain amount of zinc oxide (0.05%, 0.1%, or 0.2%), stirring the mixture for 1 minute, and pouring it into a permanent mould. Results showed that, among the three specimens, the specimen reinforced with 0.2% zinc oxide had the highest tensile strength of 23.9 kg/mm2, the greatest hardness of 134.4 HV, and a flat surface with evenly distributed grains and more brittle fracture.

The combustion of fuel takes place inside the cylinder with the oxygen of the air, producing a very high-pressure combustion gas. The combustion gas does work on the piston and then passes through the connecting rod to the crankshaft. The reciprocating translational motion of the piston may damage the connecting rod. A simulation using ANSYS was performed on each of the three connecting rod materials. Results showed that the maximum deformation occurred in the connecting rod made of structural steel, aluminium alloy, and titanium alloy was 0.239 mm, 0.672 mm, and 0.496 mm, respectively.

Bones play an integral role in human survival. Damage to the knee joint has prompted orthopaedic specialists to develop implants as one of the solutions. In this study, Ti6Al4V as the implant material was optimised to determine and achieve the optimum implant condition based on the loading applied and the total deformation occurred. The optimisation results showed that the activity of walking downstairs resulted in the highest average of total deformation (19345 mm), followed by walking (15984 mm) and jumping (2.94 mm).

The body shape that is engineered in such a way will produce fluid flow characteristics that very and greatly affect the function of the shape of the body. However, until now researchers have not been able to find the right solution to diagnose and synthesize flow structures, so that it is done directly through experimental testing [3]. One of them by using the help of a software CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) is Ansys 18.1. Fluid Flow Analysis on the surface of the body electric car UM produces several characteristics such as fluid flow which has a significant obstacle, especially on the surface that has a wide surface that causes a flow that causes the flow is red which indicates the velocity of air flowing in that large area obtained maximum velocity air results of 21.1885m / s marked with the color red and velocity minimum of 0.03947m / s marked in blue, other than that when the air flows produce a pressure that produces the maximum pressure received by the body of 79.12Pa and the minimum pressure of -316.1Pa and the value of drag coefficient from the car body electric car UM obtained results of 0.46.

A connecting rod is the core component of an engine which has a function to transmit power released from combustion from the piston to the crankshaft. Deformation is the most commonly occurring damage to connecting rods. The connecting rods made of structural steel, aluminium alloy and titanium alloy were designed using Autodesk Inventor and analysed using ANSYS. The simulations showed the following results. The connecting rod made of structural steel had the highest maximum stress of 82.791 MPa. The connecting rod made of aluminium alloy had the highest maximum deformation of 0.84071 mm. The three connecting rod materials had the same maximum safety factor, i.e. 15.

Tannin isolated from Psidium guajava leaves are developed to enhance the corrosion protection of austenitic stainless steel. It is used as a green inhibitor, extracted from Psidium guajava which grow in East java, Indonesia. In the present work, the corrosion inhibition properties of the tannin inhibitors were investigated in 3M HCl by polarization potentiodynamic measurements. The result reveals that tannin 1g/L could enhance the inhibition efficiency up to 91.81%.

Bone is the connective tissue in the human body which consists of cells, fibers, and extracellular matrix. The bone matrix is the hardest part located in the outer layer of the bone, which is caused by the deposition of minerals in the matrix, so that the bone undergoes classification. The bone functions as a hard, rigid body frame, and provides a place or space for attachment of muscles and organs found in the human body. The simulation results using FEM showed that knee implants made with Ti6Al4V material had a total deformation of 0.15 mm, maximum principal stress of 17.012 MPa, and a maximum shear stress of 15.841 MPa. The analysis was performed using a variation of time 0 to 1.01 seconds.

Ammonia synthesis requires high pressure and high temperature process. Unfortunately, the capital intensive cost resulting low yield of ammonia by using recent catalyst which is iron oxide. Therefore, manganese zinc ferrite as a soft ferrite material will be introduced as a new nanocatalyst to enhance the ammonia yield. As a new nanocatalyst for ammonia production, study of comparasion two different concentration of MnZn Ferrite is very important. This paper will compare the yield of ammonia by using two different nanocatalyst which are Mn0.4Zn0.6Fe2O4 and Mn0.6Zn0.4Fe2O4. Both were synthesized by sol-gel method and has been characterize by using FESEM (morphology), XRD (phase identification), EDX (elemental analysis) and TPR (oxide reduction). The ammonia was produce with and without magnetic field applied. The result shows that the ammonia yield is higher for Mn0.4Zn0.6Fe2O4 nanocatalyst than Mn0.6Zn0.4Fe2O4 by using magnetic field applied. 67.2% of yield has been achieved by using new nanocatalyst Mn0.6Zn0.4Fe2O4 and magnetic field applied at ambient environment.

Nodular cast iron comes to be the most used material in manufacturing industry. Recently, a number of engineering to enhance the mechanical properties of nodular cast iron have been being given including through the heat treatment called single-step austempered. In general, the process of single-step heat treatment is conducted through austenization at the temperature of 900°C with the holding time of 60 minutes and quenched at various austempered temperatures of 280, 310, and 340°C in the holding time of 60 and 120 minutes. The observation on fatigue crack behaviour was performed in comparison of stress R=0 and at 11-Hz frequency. From the result of the research, a graphic about relationship of crack length (a) and the number of cycles (N), and the graphic of the fatigue crack growth rate (da/dN) with the stress intensity factor of (Δk). In addition, it is found that the single-step austempered heat treatment at the austempered temperature at 340°C with the holding time of 120 minutes showed a slower fatigue crack growth rate in comparison to the temperature and time below. The slowness of the fatigue crack growth rate was caused by the higher percentage of the pearlite matrix phase in comparison to the ferrite matrix, nodular distance, and the relatively even nodule distribution.

Carbonitriding is a surface hardening process of steel by heating on critical temperature, quench and followed by tempering process. In this research, pack media in carbonitriding was used as a new method. Usually, this process has been obtained using gas and liquid carbonitriding methods. The specimen used in this research is low carbon steel (St. 41) consist of 0.1517% carbon, 0.1994% of silicon, 0.5631% of manganese, 0.0224% of phosphorus, and 0.047% of sulfur. Temperature for pack carbonitriding was at 700 °C, 750 °C and 800 °C and holding time variation 60 minutes and 120 minutes respectively. The result showed that carbonitriding temperature difference affect the mechanical properties of steel St. 41. Steel hardness was increased at lower holding time (60 minutes) compared to 120 minutes. The result showed that at 700 °C and 750 °C with 60 minutes variation, the steel hardness increase from 85.7 HRB to 95.7 HRB and at 800 °C the hardness decrease to 93.1 HRB. Meanwhile, at holding time of 120 minutes, steel hardness decrease from 94.1 HRB to 92.7 HRB. This result caused by austenite phase produced at longer period of holding time.