Finite element and experimental analysis of folding bicycle frame

  Mr. Nikhil Y. Patil,  Mr. E. N. Aitavade

Bicycle is considered as a very popular and easily available source of transportation which is very efficient as well as economical among the man powered vehicles. Bicycle Frame is very important structural element on which all other different types of structural elements and accessories are mounted. Due to such importance of frame its structural strength is very much important for safe riding. As all other elements are mounted on the frame with help of different types of fastening methods, different types of loads are directly transferred to it like reaction force from ground, weight of rider, breaking force and force due to peddling action. Till date numbers of innovative ideas were presented for bicycle frame structure, out of these innovations a foldable bicycle frame structure is proposed for this work. The foldable structure of frame provides ease of portability as it is very easily folded to smaller size compared to original size. In this work static structural analysis of folding frame is carried out using both using finite element method and experimental method for two loading condition that are horizontal loading, vertical loading. The loading and boundary conditions were developed in reference with ASTM F2711-08 bicycle frame testing standard. The 3D modeling of frame is modeled using CAD software CATIA V5 and analysis is carried out in finite element analysis software ANSYS 16. Results of FEA were compared to experimental analysis results.

Keywords- CAD, FEA, Folding bicycle, frame

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1904048
Page Number(s) - 276-280
Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 4 | October 2019
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Mr. Nikhil Y. Patil,  Mr. E. N. Aitavade,   "Finite element and experimental analysis of folding bicycle frame", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.7, Issue 4, pp.276-280, October 2019, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1904048.pdf