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The forming process included 5 stages which two of them were about trimming and the remaining stages were about forming. A quarter model of the rim has been prepared with Altair Hypermesh and analyzed with LS-Dyna. Here are the three process that I have modeled.
The three forming phases can be seen at the following picture.
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Phase 1
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phase 3
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phase 5
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In this study, the rim has been considered with a variety of shapes and number of holes (between 12 to 18 holes) and a completely inverse cycle has been employed to evaluate the fatigue performance. Some results with regard to one step loading have been illustrated in the following pictures.
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Nine elliptical holes
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Twelve elliptical holes
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Twelve circular holes
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Eighteen circular holes
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Sixteen trapezoid holes |
Last modified on 17/07/2015