Finite element analysis of wheel rim by additive manufacturing materials

Due to the number of possible uncertainties, and the non-linearity of variables, it is difficult to analyze the stresses induced in the wheel rim. This work covers the application of additive manufacturing (AM) materials to a particular product, wheel rim, for design and analysis to know how the new materials are performing under boundary conditions. The design work of the wheel rim is done by using computer-aided design (CAD) software, CATIA V5. After that, the designed model is brought into ANSYS software for the analysis work. Static and modal analysis is carried out using ANSYS software by considering two different materials namely aluminum alloy, Al-Si-10 Mg, and titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4 V. ANSYS analysis shows, the Al-Si-10 Mg alloy wheel rim is subjected to more stress, and more deformation compared to the Ti-6Al-4 V alloy wheel rim. After observing all the results, it has been seen that the titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4 V performed better than the aluminium alloy, Al-Si-10 Mg.