Design of laminate handlebars for mountain bikes

This bachelor’s thesis describes design of laminate handlebars for mountain bikes. The first part describes the mechanical properties of composite materials, with the emphasis on fiber composites. The algorithm for acquiring material characteristics of fiber composite by analytical method is presented. In the next part, it is shown how to control the direction of fibers in lam-inate in the finite element calculations and its impact to resulting stresses in the material. The aim of the last part is design geometry model of laminate handlebars for mountain bikes with following stress – strain analysis by FEM and software ANSYS. The analysis is performed for static loading