Design and Analysis of New Locking Mechanism For Fixing Wheels To An Automobile with minimum Human effort

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

In this paper, the need for a new product or development of the existing product is always consistent in the modern day of developing science, engineering and technology. The enhancement of the product leads to greater profits and reputation. One such developing mechanism is an automobile wheel fixing mechanism. The existing method of fixing a wheel to an automobile axle is with the help of bolt and nuts. This requires more human effort and time taking either to fix or remove the wheel from the axle. The main aim of this project is to change the existing fixing mechanism with new mechanism by reducing human effort and time drastically. The material used is Aluminum alloy for alloy wheel and structural steel for the lock mechanism. Design is an important industrial activity which influences the quality of the product. Locking mechanism modelling is done in CATIA software later this is imported to ANSYS for analysis purpose. ANSYS software is used for simulating the different forces, pressures acting on the component and also for calculating and viewing the results. The following analyses such as equivalent stress, total deformation are carried out on new designed wheel and the results are compared with existing experimental values for validation. Once the validation processes is over and results are within the acceptable range, a prototype is produced.

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