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Structural Analysis of Wheels Through Analytical and Experimental Methods

Author(s) Prof. Dr. Pinar Demircioglu, Prof. Dr. Ismail Bogrekci, Mr. Mehmet Kose
Country Turkey
Abstract Analytical and experimental methods have a complementary relationship. Finite element analysis is a key method to decrease cost and make quicker decisions. A certain degree of correlation must exist between them. In the study, analytical and experimental studies were conducted based on a new wheel size that is 8.25x20. The rim part of the wheel was designed with three different configurations which material thicknesses of 5 mm, 5.5 mm and 6 mm. Flow of the experiments was started with considering 5 mm and 6 mm in the first place. According to results taken from analyses and experiments, an optimization configuration was designed as 5.5 mm. Radial fatigue test was chosen as physical test and analysis setup was built on it. Since the results of finite element analysis were used in fatigue life calculations, it was validated with mesh independence less than 1% variation by assignment of boundary conditions and loadings calculated from the authoritative literature. The importance of the optimization process to keep a product competitive in the market was shown by weight reduction. Fatigue life cycle correlation was performed in the first case resulted with 7.35% difference between physical radial fatigue test and finite element analysis. The analyses and fatigue calculations indicated extremely high cycle counts make the physical tests impractical and not feasible to align the test cycles with the calculations in the other cases. Therefore, the physical radial tests for the other cases were finalized at a point meet with the cycles well above the test standard limits, and durability of the wheels in the other cases were confirmed.
Keywords Fatigue Life, Finite Element Analysis, Wheel, Radial Fatigue Test, Correlation, Optimization.
Field Engineering
Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On 2025-07-15
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i04.51256
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9s9sq
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