Advancement in Simulation of Front Axle of Tractor

Abstract

The past few decades have witnessed rapid technological growth in the area of automobiles. One way of improving ones status in market is to keep the products price as low as possible, but with good reliability. This can be done by using CAE tools like FEA. FEA reduces the cost of testing. Previously the analysis of front axle was done without assembling the wheel hub, so the correlation of FEA results with experimental results was about 14-17%. After lots of study it was predicted that if the wheel-hub is assembled with the front axle and the forces are applied on the wheel-hub, the results would be closer to the original values. The objective of this paper is to perform finite element analysis to the front axle system of tractor with wheel-hub for Bump test and Endurance structural test- forward (EST-FWD), Endurance structural test- reverse (EST-REV) to these two test load conditions and validation within 10% of actual stress measured experimentally.