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Analytical and Fe Analysis of Leaf Spring of Steel, Aluminium and Carbon and E-Glass Epoxy Composite Materials

K. V. S. Seshendra Kumar, D. Satya Prasad Babu

Abstract


This work is carried out on a multi leaf spring having nine leaves used by a commercial vehicle, each leaf length, deformation and bending stresses are theoretically designed. The finite element modeling and analysis of a multi leaf spring has been carried out. It includes two full length leaves in which one is with eyed ends and seven graduated length leaves. Different types of materials have been chosen like steel, aluminum, carbon epoxy and glass epoxy. The model of the leaf spring has been generated in pro/e 5.0 and imported in ANSYS-12 for finite element analysis, which are most popular CAE tools. The FE analysis of the leaf spring has been performed by discretization of the model in infinite nodes and elements and refining them under defined boundary condition. Bending stress and deflection are the target results. A comparison of different material results have been done to conclude the low weight optimum model.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijied.v1i1.36

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