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Study and design of an automated side-stand for motorcycles

Georgoulakis Aristeidis

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The stand makes up an integral part of every motorcycle, offering the appropriate support on the vehicle during parking. Following the all-growing trend of our times for “clever” and automatic/autonomous solutions, this thesis aims to replace the classic, foot-powered, side-stand with a part which, automatically, will be able to recognize when to expand and when to retract itself. This way, many accidents happening over time due to carelessness of drivers, forgetting to retract their motorcycle’s stand, can now be avoided. Moreover, the design is been performed in a way that the stand will follow the morphology of the motorcycle’s frame, in which it is going to be attached on, so that it has an aerodynamic profile and not turn into an obstacle over the air flow on that specific plane, improving this way the whole on-road performance of the vehicle. The procedure covers also the application of appropriate loads onto the stand, so that its durability can be tested and ensured in a static simulation study, by utilizing the finite elements analysis method, inside the environment of specialized computer software, resulting in its final form.

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