期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：5
页码：1
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：Reducing weight while increasing or maintaining strength of products is getting to be highly important researchissue in this modern world. Composite materials are one of the material families which are attracting researchers and beingsolutions of such issue. In this paper we describe design and analysis of composite leaf spring. The objective is to compare thestresses and weight saving of composite leaf spring with that of steel leaf spring. The design constraint is stiffness. TheAutomobile Industry has great interest for replacement of steel leaf spring with that of composite leaf spring, since thecomposite materials has high strength to weight ratio, good corrosion resistance. The material selected was glass fiberreinforced polymer (E-glass/epoxy), carbon epoxy and graphite epoxy is used against conventional steel. The design parameterswere selected and analyzed with the objective of minimizing weight of the composite leaf spring as compared to the steel leafspring. The leaf spring was modeled in Auto-CAD 2012 and the analysis was done using ANSYS 9.0 software.
