Numerical investigation of frame for human powered flywheel equipped cycle rickshaw

Abstract

Recent awareness in fossil fuel depletion due to large consumption with regard of population number growth from time to time, and environment degradation due to fossil fuel combustion emission has generated. This research focuses on the design of human powered flywheel equipped cycle rickshaw. The operating mechanism of this vehicle is same as the upright bicycle. The study conducted by reviewing different related previous works. The main objective of this work is designing flywheel equipped cycle rickshaw, to harvest kinetic energy lost during braking or slow down for later use. This done by using a mechanism incorporated with flywheel and clutch system. The study is carried out for design of the frame. The frame of this work cycle rickshaw designed by using both up right bicycle fit data and anthropometrics data in order to develop ergonomic and rigid frame. After the needed component geometry and dimension analyzed the model of cycle rickshaw components developed by using CATIA software. The design considers both static and dynamic condition. For FE analysis ANSYS 15 is used to find out total deformation, equivalent (von mises) stress, maximum shear stress and factor of safety.