Week 4 -Wire Bending Challenge

Objective: To perform static structural analysis of bending of a wire in the following cases:

1. Case 1:
   1. Wire: Copper Alloy NL
   2. Wheel: Structural Steel
   3. Lever: Structural Steel
2. Case 2:
   1. Wire: Aluminum Alloy NL
   2. Wheel: Structural Steel
   3. Lever: Structural Steel
3. Case 3:
   1. Wire: Magnesium Alloy NL
   2. Wheel: Structural Steel
   3. Lever: Structural Steel

Procedure:

1. Contacts and Joints:
2. Meshing:
   1. Case 1:
   2. Case 2:
   3. Case 3:
3. Boundary Conditions:

Analysis:

1. Case 1:
   1. Equivalent Elastic Strain:
   2. Equivalent Stress:
2. Case 2:
   1. Equivalent Elastic Strain:
   2. Equivalent Stress:
3. Case 3:
   1. Equivalent Elastic Strain:
   2. Equivalent Stress:

Result:

Cases	Equivalent Elastic Strain (mm/mm)		Equivalent Stress (MPa)
	Maximum	Minimum	Maximum	Minimum
Case 1	0.0029292	7.863×10^-8	321.76	0.0050058
Case 2	0.0045414	7.8455×10^-8	321.35	0.0031059
Case 3	0.0057244	8.0892×10^-8	256.47	0.0019395

Conclusion: The equivalent elastic strain comes out to be maximum for case 3 whereas the equivalent stress comes out to be maximum for case 1.