Static analysis of truck wheel rim using ANSYS Software Mahajan Priyank*, Ishar Rishabh*, Dr. Prajapati D.R.** *UG students, Department of Mechanical Engineering, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India **Associate Professor & Supervisor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, PEC University of Technology (Formerly Punjab Engineering College), Chandigarh, India Online published on 12 May, 2017. Abstract This paper presents the displacement and stress profiles for a truck wheel rims under various loading conditions. The analysis is done by using two materials: Al 6061 T6 and forged steel and for two trucks: Eicher 10.59 XP (4-wheeler) and Tata SFC 909 EX (6-wheeler) have been considered for the analysis. Using ANSYS 16.0, the paper finds that the designed wheel rim can be used for both the trucks. It is found that the maximum displacement in forged steel rim is less than Al 6061 T6 wheel rim for all the loading conditions. On comparing the masses, the mass of Al 6061 T6 rim to be 20.091 kg less than the mass of forged steel rim. It is found that the Al 6061 T6 is a better material for manufacturing of wheel rim from the perspective of mass optimization while forged steel is a better material when only maximum displacement is considered. Top Keywords Truck wheel rim, Static analysis, Radial load, Axial Load, Von-mises Stresses. Top |