Design & Experimental Modulation of Pitman Arm

Mechanical Engineering

In this paper an investigation attempt is made to optimize the steering link (Pitman’s Arm). Number of iterations were prepared using FEA Structural Analysis followed by Topology optimization to minimize mass from the existed part. With the emerge in technology for cost saving methods ANSYS plays an important part to enroll the strength with several optimization strategy. This paper elaborates the stress factors and fatigue parameters of pitman arm for the applied boundary condition, & also an attempt was be made to fabricate the optimize part and to validate the software results with experimental testing results. Both the results are approximation to the exact solution and are matching the values, hence the design parameters evaluated to optimize the link was successfully obtained thorough the software as well as experimental via UTM tensile testing.

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