AbstractsEngineering

The aim of this thesis work is to do the study and analysis of Student Car wheel hubs. The first part is a briefing of the “StudentCar” competition and a short explanation of the problem. Also it talks about the information and files that the team have about their hubs. After that, the document has short information about the basics knowledge of Strength of Materials necessary for to do the analysis in hubs and information about the material used by the team (Aluminum Alloy 7075-T6). But the context of this thesis talks about how to do a basic failure analysis. And how to do a more specific analysis with ANSYS software using the ANSYS results in Miner´s rule (kind of failure analysis for a cumulative damage). Finally the document includes the results of this analysis; the possible changes that can do better pieces; also it includes short explanation who talks about the possible mistakes in analysis results. At the end, this thesis work talks about the final conclusions and the comments of the author.