Input File for a Model of a Wheel Using
Brick, Shell and Beam Elements
c
c Wheel - tire, felly, spokes and wheel-nave
c
parameter
eps 4
rad1 300 c wheel nave to tire
rad2 25 c radius of tire
rad5 [%rad1-%rad2]
sig [%rad2*3/(4*sqrt(2))]
rad4 [%rad5*cos(80)] c outer radius of wheel nave
rad3 20 c inner radius of wheel nave
rad6 10
wnl 40 c half length of wheel nave
rad7 [%wnl*(%rad5-%rad3)/(%rad5-%rad4)];
c PART 1 - Felly
cylinder -1;1 289;1 9;
[%rad1-%sig-%eps] 0 360 [-%sig] %sig
mate 1 thic 1
sfi -1;;;ts 0 0 0 0 0 1 [%rad1-%eps] 0 %rad2
endpart
c PART 2 - Tire
cylinder 1 2 6 7; 1 145; 1 2 6 7;
[%rad1-%sig] [%rad1-%sig] [%rad1+%sig] [%rad1+%sig]
0 360 [-%sig] [-%sig] %sig %sig
mate 2
dei 1 2 0 3 4;;1 2 0 3 4;
sfi -1 -4;;-1 -4;ts 0 0 0 0 0 1 %rad1 0 %rad2
endpart
c PART 3 - Wheel nave
cylinder 1 3; 1 37; 1 3;
%rad6 %rad3 0 360 [-%rad7] %rad7
mate 3
endpart
c Start of global replication
gct 1 rxy rz 10; lev 1 grep 0 1;; pslv 1
c PART 4 - Spoke plates
cylinder 1 6; 1 37; -1; %rad3 %rad4 0 360 %wnl
pb 1 0 0 1 0 0 z %rad7
mate 3
endpart
c PART 5 - Spokes
beam
cy [%rad5*.5] 10 [%wnl*.5];
cy %rad4 100 %wnl;
cy %rad5 20 0;
cy %rad4 -80 %wnl;
cy %rad5 0 0;
bm 2 3 3 4 1 1 ;
bm 4 5 3 4 1 1;
lct 8 rz 40;repe 8; lrep 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8;
endpart
c End of global replication
pplv
merge
