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Analysis of the causes of cracks on the wheeel rims
Plundrák, David ; Němec, Karel (referee) ; Foret, Rudolf (advisor)
This thesis looks for the causes of cracks in bicycle rims in the most stressed areas (in places holes for wires). For this reason, in this work is the stress and strain analysis of a simple model of the rim to the working load is given and further the complete production process of the rim is described. As an experimental material were used rims from different producers of aluminum alloy EN AW 6061 and EN AW 6082 T6 temper, in which a crack started to spread. For assessment of rims materials the methods of optical spectroscopy, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Vickers hardness test were used and for finding another crack penetration test was performed. Based on the performed experiments bad design solution of rivets was found in the rim 1. Broken rivets initiated fatigue cracks. Material of rim 1 was alright. The other two rims were deficiencies in materials. For the rim 2 was a problem with coarse-grained recrystallized structure. The insufficiently rapid cooling for the rim 3 caused exclusion hardening phase (particularly copper phase) at grain boundaries. Moreover, the rim 3 is not cured to the required parameters. Aluminium alloys are an ideal material for bicycle rims. However, they require reliable design solutions and meeting the physical metallurgy, which lies in the knowledge and use of influences of chemical composition, forming and heat treatment on mechanical, chemical, physical and technological properties.
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Analysis of the causes of cracks on the wheeel rims
Plundrák, David ; Němec, Karel (referee) ; Foret, Rudolf (advisor)
This thesis looks for the causes of cracks in bicycle rims in the most stressed areas (in places holes for wires). For this reason, in this work is the stress and strain analysis of a simple model of the rim to the working load is given and further the complete production process of the rim is described. As an experimental material were used rims from different producers of aluminum alloy EN AW 6061 and EN AW 6082 T6 temper, in which a crack started to spread. For assessment of rims materials the methods of optical spectroscopy, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Vickers hardness test were used and for finding another crack penetration test was performed. Based on the performed experiments bad design solution of rivets was found in the rim 1. Broken rivets initiated fatigue cracks. Material of rim 1 was alright. The other two rims were deficiencies in materials. For the rim 2 was a problem with coarse-grained recrystallized structure. The insufficiently rapid cooling for the rim 3 caused exclusion hardening phase (particularly copper phase) at grain boundaries. Moreover, the rim 3 is not cured to the required parameters. Aluminium alloys are an ideal material for bicycle rims. However, they require reliable design solutions and meeting the physical metallurgy, which lies in the knowledge and use of influences of chemical composition, forming and heat treatment on mechanical, chemical, physical and technological properties.
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