SIMULACIÓN MATERIAL ADECUADO PARA SILLA DE RUEDA 1

Abstract

Title

Simulation of the appropriate material for the structure of a standard wheelchair adjusted

to the socio-economic conditions of the city of Valledupar.

Authors

Barón Angarita Laura Judith and Contreras López Freddy Alejandro.

Keywords

Simulation, Static analysis, Yield strength, Guadua, Rigid PVC.

Description

The present work was proposed to give continuity to an institutional project carried out by

teachers and students of the Universidad de Santander campus Valledupar and was developed in

different stages according to the academic periods.

Initially, the main objective of this project was to select the appropriate material for the

structure of a wheelchair adjusted to the economic conditions of the inhabitants of the city of

Valledupar and its surroundings, where most of the people who have a disability that prevents

their mobility are victims of the armed conflict or live in conditions where they do not even earn

a minimum wage, which does not allow them to acquire a tool that gives them a better quality of

life that allows them to be an aid for those people with mobility difficulties.

The methodology applied for this project is experimental type, since the SolidWorks

program and its simulation interface were used as a means of evaluating the selected materials, in

addition to identifying the advantages of these materials from an ecological and economic point

of view. Additionally, the focus of this research is quantitative because through the simulations a
SIMULACIÓN MATERIAL ADECUADO PARA SILLA DE RUEDA 2

series of numerical values, graphs and tables will be obtained, which will define which material

meets all the proposed conditions within the functional, economic and ecological framework.