Fender Design - Wheel Arch Challenge

FENDER DESIGN - WHEEL ARCH CALCULATION:

• OBJECTIVE:
  • Calculate the Wheel Arc area of European Standard and prove whether the car will pass the standards or Not.INTRODUCTION:
    • The wheel arch is an arch-shaped cavity in the body of a vehicle, which houses a wheel. It has two important functions. It serves for the safety of pedestrians and other cars because the wheel is situated in the body of a vehicle. The second function is to protect the car from the sticky materials, such as mud, may adhere to the smooth outer tire surface, while smooth loose objects, such as stones, can become temporarily embedded in the tread grooves as the tire rolls over the ground. These materials can be ejected from the surface of the tire at high velocity as the tire imparts kinetic energy to the attached objects. For a vehicle moving forward, the top of the tire is rotating upward and forward and can throw objects into the air at other vehicles or pedestrians in front of the vehicle.

Steps Invoved :

1 Create a datum plane on the puter end of the wheel surface

2 Create a line from the wheel centre to the Fender edge

3 create a inter section point on the projected fender edge and the line drawn

4 project the intersection point on the fender surfce and measure the distance between the actual point and the projected piont

5 Hence the Wheel Arc is calculated.

Solution : The Horizontal Disstance Between the wheel outer edge and the fender edge is measered .