Bike frame Analysis

This was a quick FEA analysis of a bike frame, I initially wanted to create this simulation after I was at the store and saw a bike and thought to myself how do they know how many pounds it would support.

I found that using a steel frame is common because it is cheap and very durable where as racing bikes lightweight composites ares used which tend to be much more pricey.

Model Credit: https://grabcad.com/library/bike-frame-2-1

Displacement

Static Stress

  • This is a Gif animation created showing the strain on the joint as a loads of 800+ pounds is applied to 6080 hollow aluminum with a wall thickness of .4 inch