Rims on which cars move, are the most vital elements in a vehicle, they must be designed carefully. The rims manufactured by either steel or cast aluminum alloys. The primary objective of this study is to analyze the stress distribution and displacement along the rim using the commercial software's like Catia V5 R20, Hypermesh and Radioss. With reference to the journal, by maintaining known input parameters like geometry, rim type, rim material, rim specifications, loading condition and boundary condition, the model is designed using catia drawing tool and the model will be meshed by tetra...

Numerical prediction of the stress response of an octopus-type spoked wheel under steady state (static) loading conditions is carried out using commercially available FEA software. The model used in the simulation is based on the wheel model experimented on by H.Akbulut. The boundary and the loading conditions are same as those used in the measurement so as to enable comparison of the numerical results with measurement data and hence validate them.The geometry of the wheel is symmetric about the two Cartesian axes and hence only a quarter of the wheel is modeled for analysis. An optimum mesh...