Smart Innovations and Constructions- Book- ISBN- 978-81-953658-0-7

Authors:- Meet L Patel, Dhaval Patel, Abhi Shah

Abstract :- Reducing weight and stabilising or upgrading the energy is extra crucial. Automotive and related industries are making progress in replacing the conventional metallic leaf spring with composites cloth crafted from glass fibre, natural fibres, and so forth. The mono leaf spring has fabricated the usage of hand lay-up technique, which tends to be clean and price effective. The present dimensions of a traditional Tata Ace leaf spring are decided on for modelling and evaluation. Stress and deflection are examined experimentally by using flexural attempting out. The hardness of the composites is determined with the assist of Rockwell and Brinell hardness trying out the device, and the values are correlated with each distinct. Leaf spring is modelled in CREO Parametric 2.0 and brought in ANSYS for the numerical analysis. The results suggest that the composites have reduced weight up to 75% in evaluation with the conventional one. With decreased element weight and higher performance is done using composite material, replacing traditional cloth with that of the composite is efficient. The efficiency of a vehicle will improve with a reduced thing cost while a composite leaf spring is used.

Keywords: - Glass fibre, sisal fibre, leaf spring, FEA, FMEA, numerical analysis