Structural and Fatigue Analysis of a Car Wheel Rim
This example shows two structural analyses of a car wheel rim.Firstly, the parametric solver is used to simulate a varying load along the boundary of the rim. The model solves for both the anti-symmetric and symmetric load cases. The two solutions are then combined in MATLAB in order to retrieve the full solution for the stresses and deformation of the wheel rim.
In a second, extended example, a fatigue analysis of this car wheel rim is performed by utilizing the fatigue tools available in the Structural Mechanics Module.
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Boundary plot of the total deformation. |
Engineering Fields
- Linear Static Analysis
Application Areas
- Structural Mechanics