Analysis of Glass Epoxy Reinforced Monolithic Leaf Spring
Journal Title: International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) - Year 2014, Vol 4, Issue 8
Abstract
The automobile industry has been showing an interest in the replacement of steel spring with fiberglass composite leaf spring because of its high strength to weight ratio. Therefore the aim of this paper is to design and analyze composite mono leaf spring of constant width and thickness having the same bending stiffness of semi-elliptical laminated leaf spring. Stress analysis was done by using analytical method and results obtained by analytical methods are compared with ansys. The results obtained by analytical methods showed good agreement with ansys results. A Tsai-Hill failure criterion was used to check whether stresses are within reasonable levels for each ply. The stresses induced in the composite leaf springs were found to be 33.79% less compared to steel leaf spring. When steel leaf spring is replaced by composite leaf spring a weight reduction of 77.29% is obtained , 2.23 times higher natural frequency, 1.371 times more strain energy storage capacity, 33.79 % lesser stress and lesser value of spring rate is obtained in the composite leaf spring compared to steel leaf spring
Authors and Affiliations
Mohammed Mathenulla Shariff , N. Sreenivasa Babu , Dr. Jaithirtha Rao
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