Muhammad Tabish Zaman

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Machine Design -1
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Common Bicycle
Parts Requirements Possible Comparison Final Choice
Materials
Tires Good friction Good quality of For adults Rubber
and optimal rubber or plastic rubber for
road grip children plastic
Rims Ring shape, hard Steel rim Steel rims works Steel rims
and strong as it Aluminum rims best, are hard
bear almost all metal rims and economical
stress applied by aluminum rims
weight of person are a little softer
and bicycle copper rims are
too expensive
Spokes A spoked wheel steel or Stainless steel is Stainless steel
can be made as aluminum or resistive to
strong as a solid exotic corrosion and
one and have materials such fatigue
only a fraction as carbon
of the weight. composite or
ceramics
Center A light-weight titanium, Steel is the most Steel
triangle steel with basic aluminum, and popular material
angles, a head carbon fiber for bicycle
tube, and, most frames. Carbon
importantly, a steel, often
good joining of known as high-
ends tensile steel, is a
good, strong,
and long-lasting
material.
Forks Lightweight Aluminum Steel is best steel
forks with Steel option for a
sufficient Titanium bike front fork,
stiffness and Carbon fiber not only
strength are because it’s a
required loads
 without tough material,
breaking. but also
because it
offers better
balance and
relatively
cheap.best
material for
forks.
Seat They are made  Plastic Foam is more foam
to be as comfy carbon-fibre soft and cheap
as possible. It is shell
simple to sit on. rubber
It's also vital to foam
have a larger leather
surface area.
Peddles broad flat space Plastic, Steel, Steel is stronger steel
for resting the metal, fiber and reliable,
foot plastic paddles
generally break
Chain It must be able  plain carbon Steel is used in Alloy steel
to fit on the or alloy steel bicycle chains
bicycle and not because it is the
be readily most durable
removed in material.
order for the
bike to travel
smoothly.
Sprockets It should be Aluminium Steel is Steel
designed to  Steel carbon durable, Al is
balance the fiber , lighter and
torque metal[iron] Attractive and
produced by cast iron is
the dominant economical
leg and the
non-dominant
leg in cycling