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Design and Analysis of Overhead Ambulance

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Ambulances are an essential part of the healthcare system, saving millions of lives every year. The operating emergency response vehicle gets trapped in traffic jams most commonly. The autonomous ambulance will slash the number of deaths caused by delayed ambulances. The proposed autonomous ambulance has three major components namely cabin, upper railroad, and mounting. The cabin and mounting are designed and analyzed in this work using Solid Works software and ANSYS software. For drag and impact load, the proposed cabin models are analyzed. The impact study is performed using the assumption of a 68.6 kN cabin falling from a height of 24 m. Proposed mounting profiles are also analyzed to see whether they can support the cabin load in a tensile condition. Three models of the proposed ambulance cabin were tested. The simulation results show that the coefficient of drag has been reduced at a speed of 80 kmph from 0.66 (model 3) to 0.54 (model 1). The cabin's strength is evaluated using total deformation obtained from simulation, which reveals that model 1 has 55.23 percent less deformation than model 3. Mounting profile1 also showed 45 percent less deformation and 44.3 percent less von Mises stress than mounting profile3. The results are displayed, and a comparison is made to determine the best design. The final results show that the capsule cabin configuration and mounting profile1 are both stable and appropriate for the envisioned autonomous ambulance.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, 203201, India

    Sudhir Kumar Singh, Dipul Kumar, Gaurav Kumar Jha & Pawan Kumar Singh Nain

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  1. Department of Design, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India

    Ranganath M. Singari

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Pavan Kumar Kankar

  3. Physico-Mechanical Metrology, CSIR - National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

    Girija Moona

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Singh, S.K., Kumar, D., Jha, G.K., Nain, P.K.S. (2022). Design and Analysis of Overhead Ambulance. In: Singari, R.M., Kankar, P.K., Moona, G. (eds) Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Technology. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9613-8_49

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