SIZING AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE FOR THE REMOVAL OF WHEELS FROM HEAVY LINE VEHICLES

Abstract

With the increase of the fleet of heavy vehicles and the knowledge that tires are one of the components that suffer most from natural wear, inherent to the use of the work routine, the maintenance or replacement of parts and components of the region allocated to the tyre occurs with Often and requires great physical effort. This article focuses on demonstrating the application of the mechanical design of a device that assists in the removal of the wheels of vehicles in this category, as well as to present the equation of the various efforts to which they are submitted, Using specific software such as AutoCAD, Inventor HSM and others. The project elaborated through these projection software in 3D, facilitates the construction and discrimination of the material necessary for the elaboration of the prototype, grounded in the calculations of determination of the static force and application of the safety coefficient, determination of reactions in the support, moment and maximum cutting forces, determination of yield strength in the tube, bearing type determination by the applied effort.