EXPERIMENTAL AND FEA ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE LEAF SPRING BY VARYING THICKNESS

Sagar B Mahajan, M.C.Swami, Parmeshwar Patil

Abstract: The work is carried out on composite leaf spring of a commercial vehicle. The objective of this work is to carryout design and analysis of composite leaf spring with experimental design consideration and loading condition. The material of leaf spring is EGFRC (Glass Fiber reinforced composite). The GFRC leaf springs are manufactured by hand lay-up method which were evaluated and study. The model of composite leaf spring is prepared and analyzed using ANSYS14.5 for the deflection and stresses under defined loading condition. The experimental and FEA result compared for validation. The dimension of conventional leaf spring is taken with varying thickness for evaluation of result and Static analysis is performed

Keywords: E-glass/epoxy composite, ANSYS14.5, Static Analysis.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0401015