WHEEL MODELING AND ANALYSIS BY USING ALLOY STEELS

Abstract

Automobile parts one of the major important part is a wheel spoke because of all of the automobile parts carried by spokes. Spoke is a few variety of rods divergent from the middle of wheel that connecting the hob with spherical traction surface. Originally spoke referred to portions of a log which had been split lengthwise into number of sections (4 or 6).Wheel is a radial member and spokes are in curving finished shape. Generally Heavy load carrying vehicles having high strength and good fatigue property spokes. The radial,
lateral, and tangential stiffness of bike wheel spokes depends upon the rim’s bending inertia, torsion inertia, spoke sizes, and spoke geometry. The wheel spokes are strained due to the radial loads and these are effected the fatigue resistance properties of the wheels of a motor cycle. Spooked bicycle wheels area unit economical, extremely evolved, structural systems. A useful analogy for a bicycle wheel supporting vertical loads is that of a circular beam on a prestressed elastic foundation, fixed at the center and loaded radially at the circumference. In this project we develop new wheel model With five spokes and four spokes and comparing these wheel spokes with composite and conventional alloy materials like Al-alloys and Mg-alloys. Here we using aluminum composites and conventional
magnesium alloy Comparing properties of stress, displacement, and fatigue resistance of these materials and proposing the best material with number of spokes of wheel. The wheel spoke model is developed in PEO-E software and the analysis of different wheel spokes are done by using COSMOS software. Finally the results are obtained in analysis are comparing and choosing the best material for designing a wheel spoke.