DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF ROTARY POWER STEERING SYSTEM

The most conventional steering arrangement is to turn the front wheels using a hand–operated steering wheel which is positioned in front of the driver, via the steering column, which may contain universal joints (which may also be part of the collapsible steering column design), to allow it to deviate somewhat from a straight line. In this thesis, to turn the rear wheels out of phase to the front wheels. In order to achieve this, a mechanism which consists of two bevel gears and intermediate shaft which transmit 100% torque as well turns rear wheels in out of phase was developed. The materials used for these analyses are Aluminum alloy, steel, and cast iron materials. Static analysis to determine the deformation, stress of the steering system at different rotational velocities (220,250,300&400rad/s), modal analysis to determine the natural frequency and deformation for 5 mode shapes. 3D modeled by using the software Pro-Engineer and analysis done in ANSYS software