• Anupama Chahande
• Dr. Laxman V. Kamble

Now a day’s increase in vehicle demand at a lower rate is necessity of vehicle manufacture. Expectation in terms of durability, efficiency and cost is raising exponentially by customers. Over designed components in vehicle loads to increase weight and reduced efficiency. Alloy wheels carry sprung mass of vehicle and are supported by suspension system, they can be redesigned and modified for achieving less weight and thus cost. Existing Alloy component was available in market which is reverse engineered and CAD modeled using CATIA V5 software. Finite element Discretization & Analysis is carried out using ANSYS package. FEA helped in finding out high strain locations in component and also defining area which can be modified and also optimized model is obtained by topology optimization technique. Strain gauging will be done on areas of high strain location indicated by FEA software. Fixture is designed for mounting component on UTM. Vertical loading simulating steering linkage leading to cantilever conditions is achieved using UTM. Machining has been done to remove excess material from component. Comparative analysis is done between FEA & Experimental strains.

Alloy wheels, 2- Wheeler, topology optimization, FEA.

"Design and Optimization of Alloy Wheel of 2- Wheeler Vehicle", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 10, page no.2826-2833, October-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2010368.pdf

"Design and Optimization of Alloy Wheel of 2- Wheeler Vehicle", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 10, page no. pp2826-2833, October-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2010368.pdf