期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2017
卷号：6
期号：7
页码：15328
DOI：10.15680/IJIRSET.2017.0607370
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：Alloy wheels are automobile wheels which are made from an alloy of aluminium or magnesium metalsor sometimes a mixture of both. Alloy wheels differ from normal steel wheels because of their lighter weight, whichimproves the steering and the speed of the car. Alloy wheels will reduce the unstrung weight of a vehicle compared toone fitted with standard steel wheels. In the automobile sector, the industries are going to explore the compositematerial to achieve reduction of weight without significant decrease in vehicle quality and reliability. It is fact thatreduction of unstrung weight leads to more precise handling and minimizing the fuel consumption. Composites are theonly materials that cater to the never ending demand of the material technology. The aim of the project is to suggest anew composite material Magnesium AZ91E-2%Al2O3 to the alloy wheels and evaluate its performance by performingthe static & impact analysis in ANSYS. A parametric model is designed for Alloy wheel used in four -wheeler bycollecting data from reverse engineering process from existing model. Alloy wheel models are designed in AutodeskInventor14.0 software, then converted into IGES format and imported into ANSYS Workbench for analysis. Geometryof alloy wheel was optimized to get reduction in weight by performing the shape optimization.
