Topology optimization of wheel rim of heavy vehicle

The study is mainly focused on improvisation and optimisation of mass of wheel rim of heavy vehicles such as fleet trucks, trailers, earth moving vehicles, tractors, dump trucks, concrete transport vehicles, etc. Vast amount of mass optimisation research has been done on wheel rims of light commute vehicles or sports cars however little or negligible amount of research has been done on wheel rims of heavy vehicles. Primary objective is to decrease the weight if the wheel by which the overall performance and efficiency of the vehicle is increased. The material assignment to the base model is structural steel. Post design optimisation, the rim is subjected to material optimisation wherein the optimised design is assigned multiple competitive materials and analysed and observed under same boundary conditions. Solid modelling of base model and redesigning is done on Solid Works. Static Structural Analysis and Topology Optimisation simulations are executed on ANSYS Workbench software.