Dynamic Analysis of Leaf Spring with Structural steel, Albamet, and Fiber Glass

Sreenesh Valiyandi¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.9 , Issue.2 , pp.1-5, Apr-2021

Online published on Apr 30, 2021

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Abstract :
Leaf spring is the main part in the suspension system of the vehicle. The ends of the spring may be moved together with a definite path as it swerve to behave as a structural member. The main function of leaf spring is to carry the vertical load but also to distribute the street or floor brought on vibrations. The test was conducted on a leaf spring of three different materials such as structural steel, albamet, and glass fiber.. A finite detail evaluation has been performed to determine safe loads and stresses. The Leaf spring is modeled in CERO PARAMETRIC 2.0 software program and AUTO-CAD 2008 and it was imported in ANSYS. The leaf spring with unique fabric have been analyzed and estimate the Stresses, deformation, strain energy , the cost and weight for the different materials. The outcome of this work is that the weight of the albumet is minimum compared to other materials and the cost is least by using structural steel and the material albamet is the best material for making leaf spring.

Key-Words / Index Term :
E glass, Albamet, leaf spring, Vonmises stress, atomized pre alloyed powder

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