DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF AUTOMOBILE WHEEL RIM USING DIFFERENT FILLET RADIUS AND DIFFENET Y SPOKE ANGLE

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DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF AUTOMOBILE WHEEL RIM USING
DIFFERENT FILLET RADIUS AND DIFFENET Y SPOKE ANGLE
Mr. GOURAW BEOHAR1, Mr. ARUN KUMAR MALVIYA2, MONIKA NAMDEV3
1Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Shri Ram Institute of Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
2Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Shri Ram Institute of Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
3Student, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Shri Ram Institute of Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Abstract – Wheel rims are the most important part of
automobile, in an automobile there are fatigue loads and
static loads which are actively participated in design. There
are several way of failure of wheel rim like critical stresses
and material failure due to design, dimension and shape of
wheel also play vital role in its rim design. Present paper
studied the Y angle optimization in alloy wheel rim. The
present project design is modeled by using modeling
software CATIAv5, imported analyzed by ANSYS software.
For the structural analysis for the remote force the
magnitude applied is 1000N and for the pressure which
applied on the wheel is 245kPa.
Finally result shows the total deformation of 8 spoke alloy
wheel with 55° Y spoke angle, figure clearly depicted the
total deformation maximum value 0.00155mm maximum at
base of wheel or outer periphery of wheel rim.
Key Words: Wheel Rim, Y Spoke Rim, fillet radius of rim,
total deformation occurring,
1. INTRODUCTION:
Origin of human civilization is truly stated with
invention of wheel and absolutely it is significant discovery
of evolution of human race. The invention of wheel
accelerates the transportation idea. By definition, wheel isa
part with circular shape which rotates around axle and
enable the rolling motion of vehicle. Inception concept of
wheel is simply wooden disk with hole manufactured for
cart or bullock cart. Wheel with spoke is used for
construction of lighter and speedy vehicle. Designing and
production of modern motor vehicles follows strict
guidelines to ensure safety of travelers. Each component of
vehicle may have to follow criticality of each design
consideration. Simply the automobile wheels distinguished
as per international coding system.
There are three elements in wheel classified ashub,
spokes, and rim. Components related to design may be
constructed in one or multiple parts. Firstly, the hub is basic
centrally located and attached through wheel knuckle.
Secondly the spokes act as bridge between hub and rim. At
last, the rim which is outermost part of wheel to grasp type.
There are few essential characteristics for wheel of vehicle.
Wheel should be in proper balancing in statically and
dynamically both conditions. Wheel shouldbelightinweight
with ease in mounting and removing. Wheel material should
have good in strength as well as less corrosive to weather
conditions. The wheel has well insteeringcontrol andableto
absorb shock loads, it should also be able to resist
deformation against impact load during bump.
1.1 Steel and Aluminum Wheels
More popular and standard part of vehicles. They also
added the sophistication to vehicle with light weighting
Constructions of wheel for modern cars have started with
steel wheels which are usually constructed with metal sheet
and then welded together. Due to durability, flexibility, and
greater strength of material like steel theyarestill inuse, but
the disadvantage with steel wheels is their heavy weight.
To reduce the weight in car wheelstoachievebetter
stability and dynamics of vehicles, car manufactures
introduced the aluminum wheels as add-ons to vehicles.But
technologies shifted to more organized sectors and
aluminum wheels become measure,aswell asstylishfeature
in cars. Aluminum modeled wheels started its flagship to all
luxury vehicles with exclusively personnel touched reason.
In 1948 forged aluminum wheel invented inALCOA
and 1962 the Porsche with aluminum alloy increases the
popularity of forged aluminum wheels. The penetration of
aluminum in wheels was approx. 35 % in the year in
European context, which is near about 1.5 times as compare
with USA and Japan. Now a days aluminum wheels increase
their popularity in commercial market. Nowadays, the
growth rate of the aluminum wheel market has slowed
down, but the market volume is still increasing.
1.2 Manufacturing of Aluminum Wheels
In modern days the aluminum wheelsaremadebycasting
and forging processes. Performance of wheels is directly
propositional to the manufacturing process. Their
performance is a direct result of the employed
manufacturing technique. Forgedwheelsarestrongerone as
well as lighter. Casting wheels are knownasdurableones for
moderate conditions. The manufacturing of wheel classified
into two types as per manufacturing process

i. Cast aluminum wheels
ii. Forged aluminum wheels
1.3 Aluminum Alloy Wheels
Alloy wheels are basic combination of two materials:
aluminum and magnesium. Basically, two types of alloytype
used in manufacturing in wheels, first is AlSi1MgMn (6082)
and other AA 6061 (AlSiMgCu).Recentlymanufacturing with
Titanium is being measured for better durability and shock
absorbing. Different Spoke design is also considered for
better durability and design consideration, and it should be
able to face all consequences while riding the vehicles in all
terrains of roads.
Magnesium alloy wheels are sometimes used on
special cars (sports cars, upper class models) for better
performance instead of heavier steel or aluminum wheels.
These wheels are produced by hot forging or casting from
magnesium alloys such as ZK60, AZ31 or AZ91. Theirtypical
mass is about 5–9 kg (depending on size). But apartfrom the
high price, magnesium wheels have also additional
disadvantages for normal road use (flammability, corrosion
resistance)
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
P. Meghashyam et.al studies the car wheel rim designed by
CATIA to reduce the risk involved in manufacturing and
design. Further it is analyzed by ANSYS software, in this
analysis the 3D model exported andsimulatedwithdifferent
forces and pressure. ANSYS used static model of analysis,
where two different models of aluminum and forged steel
were calculated for wheel rim component. Structural
behavior of rim model analyzed by input data of software,
calculation of different rim model ANSYS workbench isused
with different materials like Steel, Aluminumalloy,Titanium
alloy, Magnesium alloy. A standard rim size i.e.17Inchtaken
for analysis as per SAE standard with fixed ends for lug
holes. Total 0.35 MPa applied on the wheel barrel with
different materials. In all four possibilities the best suited
material is aluminum, the second best material is titanium
alloy, but high cost makes the titanium alloy non-
commercial.
Hence, titanium alloy is better suitable material if
cost is no issue; otherwise AluminumAlloyamongthesefour
materials is good for wheel rim obtained from this research
analysis.
Sunil Prashanth Kumar et. al studies the aluminum alloy
and steel rim, designed in Auto CAD 2022. The project is
analyzed with ANSYS software with two category steel and
aluminum alloy. Study occurredintwodesignfirstsimplysix
spoke design and second one is multi spke alloy, where total
force applied is 1000N and pressure 245 kPa. In result
comparsion alloy wheels havelessdeformationascompared
with steel ones. In design format there is multi spoke alloy
have better results than6 spoke alloy wheels.
Manugonda Babu et al researches on shape and dimension
constraint of wheel rim basically. The modeelling of wheel
rim initiated in CATIA by 3D model, further work of analysis
is done by ANSYS software, where different constraints like
deformation, strains and stress are calculated. Overall
analysis is considered on different material wheel rim like
carbon fibre, aluminum and Kevlar. Wheel rim also
subjected with fatigue structural analysis.Thisresearchalso
recommended the best material and weight comparison
between all materials chosen. Along with these materials
Kevlar chosen with best suitable material with all
constraints like fatigue and weight reduction.
M.Ravichandra et al studied different auto motive wheels
with different materials like carbon epoxy, E glass and S
glass. Alloy wheels have better stability control with greater
steering quality and less in weight. In this paper composite
materials studied with their data of present automobile,
results are compared with all otherdata withexistingmodel.
In this project a parametric model is designed for Alloy
wheel used in four-wheeler by collecting data from reverse
engineering process from existing model. The designed
model analyzed with ultimate strength of three composite
materials with help of Pro- E model and Ansys Model.
3. METHODOLOGY:
In study of automobile wheel rim, different review
suggested the different stresses during loading. Basically,
wheel rim is subjected with bending and torsional load. The
basic need of better rim structure is long life, weight
reduction and material selectionforbettermanufacturing.In
commercial world the need of low manufacturing cost as
well as less weight and low cost is necessary. There are
competitionsamongmaterialsandmanufacturingprocesses,
due to cost performance and weight.
In present research work FEM is most promising
method to understand different parameters of design. The
finite element method is computational method to calculate
different parameter of design by introducing different
boundary condition. The mathematical problem in which
differential equations set with variables with specific
boundary conditions to obtaindifferentresults.Theiterative
mathematical processes like as Galerkin’s weightedresidual
method and Raleigh-Ritz methods castoff to gain the finite
element formulation of the partial differential equation.
ANSYS Static Structural is a valuable tool for examine
problems connecting contact, huge distortions, nonlinear
materials, highfrequencyreactionphenomena andproblems
needing explicit explanations.

4. TYPES OF WHEEL DESIGN:
Designing the alloy wheels are based on the
manufactures but the steel wheels are same for every
manufacture, so the different designed models are
4.1 Spoke Alloy Wheel
Here the material and the properties are used based on the
aluminum alloy. Totally, six spokes are there in this alloy
with dimensions and it is done structural analysis
4.2 Multi-Spoke Alloy Wheel
The material used is same as that of 6 spoke alloy which is
aluminum alloy and their properties for the purpose of
analyzing it and to identify structural analysis of the wheel.
Here more spokes have been designed to find out which one
of the alloy wheels has more strength in the structure.
4.3 Steel Wheel
It is designed to identify is steel or the alloy is better in the
structural analysis. Steel is the main material used to
produce the steel wheel, here the material used for the
analysis of the structure is used the structural steel andtheir
properties.
5. WHEEL DIMENSIONS: (in mm):
Dimensions are equal for all the three types of wheels for
6 spoke alloy wheel
Rim diameter = 410mm
Rim width = 465mm
Center bore = 40mm
Bolt circles = 20mm
Spoke length = 200mm
For steel wheel,
Rim width = 245mm
Center bore = 35mm
Bolt circles = 20mm
Circles around the outer area = 25mm
For multi-spoke alloy wheel,
Rim width = 230mm
Center bore = 30mm
Bolt circles = 15mm
Spoke length = 200mm
6. DESIGN AND MODELING:
Fig-1: Design Model of 8 Spoke Alloy Wheel
Fig-2: Meshing of 8 Spoke Alloy Wheel
7. ANALYZED MODELS:
7.1 Fillet radius variation
Different model analysis with no filler radius to 5 mm fillet
radius varied.
Wheel Rim with No Fillet
Fig-3: Total Deformation of 8 Spoke Alloy wheel with No
fillet radius

Fig-4: Equivalent Stress of 8 spoke alloy with No fillet
radius
Fig-5: Equivalent Elastic Stress of 8 spoke alloy with No
fillet radius
Fig-6: Total Deformation of 8 spoke alloy with 1mm fillet
radius
Fig-7: Equivalent Elastic Strain of 8 spoke alloy with 1mm
fillet radius
Fig-8: Equivalent Stress of 8 spoke alloy with 1mm fillet
radius
Fig-9: Total Deformation of 8 spoke alloy with 2mm fillet
radius

radius
Fig-11: Equivalent Elastic Stress of 8 spoke alloy with
2mm fillet radius
Fig-12: Total Deformation of 8 spoke alloy with 3 mm
fillet radius
3mm fillet radius
radius
fillet radius

radius
Fig-17: Equivalent Elastic Stress of 8 spoke alloy with 4
mm fillet radius
fillet radius
radius
5mm fillet radius
7.2 Y Spoke Angle
Variation in this secondmodel presentresearchemphasison
variation in Y spoke model is carried out with angle with
5degree variation. At first there is 35 degree spoke angle.

Spoke angle with 35-degree angle
Fig-21: Total deformation of 8 Spoke angle wheel rim
with 35o Y spoke angle
Fig-22: Equivalent Stress of 8 Spoke angle wheel rim with
35o Y spoke angle
Fig-23: Equivalent Elastic Stress of 8 Spoke angle wheel
rim with 35o Y spoke angle
Fig-24: Total Deformation of 8 Spoke angle wheel rim
40o Y spoke angle

50o Y spoke angle

55o Y spoke angle
8. RESULT:
Fig-36: Total deformation of different Y shape alloy spoke
angle
Fig-37: Equivalent Stress with respect to different 8
Spoke ally wheel angle of Y shape
Fig-38: Equivalent Elastic Stress with respect to different
8 Spoke alloy wheel angle of Y shape

9.CONCLUSION:
For the structural analysis for the remote force the
magnitude applied is 1000N and for the pressure which
applied on the wheel is 245kPa.
Therefore, so comparing the wheels with the total
deformation occurred alloy wheels are better than the steel
wheel, and comparing the both the alloy wheels multi-spoke
alloy wheel is better than the 6-spoke alloy wheel.
Since the alloy wheel have some dis-advantages then also
considering the results alloy wheels have better structural
tendency than the steel wheels and if the spokes are
1) Static and dynamic analysis of wheel rim can be done
together.
2) For static load car weight can be considered and for
dynamic condition acceleration load can be considered.
3) For practical realistic condition harmonic excitation can
be considered.
4) All the above factors can be considered on three different
materials which after comparing in Ansys software; will
suggest which the best material.
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