A Study on Fatigue Life Optimization and Performance Analysis of Wheel Disc

  Sachin R,  Rakesh C

Wheels are the most ancient discovery for humankind. The wheels on the automobiles are the different sizes and shapes that we can see around us. In the present competitive world, the disc wheel intended for normal use on passenger cars and agricultural vehicles used for agriculture and transportation of the components plays a major role in safety and at the same time they also have role to play in the costly replacements of the disc wheels. The disc wheels experience the fatigue loads due to suspension systems, the road conditions, the way of driving, the air pressure in wheel of the transporting vehicle and many more. Disc wheels also experiences static loads when the vehicles are in steady condition. The study focuses on considering all the loads under a roof to estimate the safe life of the disc wheel. The scope of the study lies in predicting the safe life of the disc wheels and suggesting the optimized disc wheel model in order to increase the life of the disc wheel to avoid costly replacements using FEA.

Keywords- FEA, Fatigue test, Wheel disc, Static load, Safe life

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1604005
Page Number(s) - 23-29
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 4 | October 2016
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Sachin R,  Rakesh C,   "A Study on Fatigue Life Optimization and Performance Analysis of Wheel Disc", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 4, pp.23-29, October 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1604005.pdf