DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF MOTORBIKE WHEEL BY USING ANSYS SOFTWARE

Mechanical Engineering

The design of a motorbike wheel contains several complexes and attempt has been made to meet the requirements of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).By using UNIGRAPHICS (NX 7.5), it involves with the drawing requirements and design of a motorcycle wheel. The design in 6 degree of freedom (DOF) for characteristics and durability has been developed. After designing of wheel, the material should be selected and to go through several analysis test on ANSYS software. By applying different loads in existing Aluminium alloy wheel and analyze the stresses, the material has been changed from Aluminium alloy to Polyether-ether ketone, Polyether-ether ketone with 30% glass fiber, PEEK90HMF20 and PEEK90HMF40 for the study. In the same design the materials has been changed one by one and applying different loads, and analyze the stresses. It is concluded that the existing design is not suitable for plastic material. Plastic material will deform at a maximum load of 2452.5N (250Kg). So change the design and the materials and analyze the stresses and finally conclude that Aluminium alloy can be replaced by plastic material.

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