Static Analysis of Tripod Housing Using FEA and Its Validation

Abstract

Tripod housing plays a major role in transmitting power from the transmission system to the drive wheel and hence it undergoes severe torsion and bending type of deformation. In this paper, a design of Tripod housing for an off-road vehicle was analyzed using a finite element analysis (FEA) and verified mathematically using the principle of impulse-momentum and maximum shear stress theory. For any mechanical component, Factor of Safety (F.O.S.) gives the degree of safeness of the component under consideration. Thus, the focus of concern of this paper was on the value of F.O.S. by FEA and its verification using analytical calculations.