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Model ID: 2038

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.

Boundary plot of the total deformation.

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