Open AccessOptimization and Weight Reduction of Hybrid Composite Leaf Spring
Author(s) -
Mohammad Arif I. Upletawala,
Ambeprasad Kushwaha,
Gaurav Bhawde
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2007/1/012036
Subject(s) - leaf spring , spring (device) , composite number , stress (linguistics) , reduction (mathematics) , deformation (meteorology) , structural engineering , environmental science , materials science , composite material , mathematics , engineering , geometry , linguistics , philosophy
Weight decrease is one of the significant boundaries in plan of car segments. Such decrease helps to improve the eco-friendliness and execution of the vehicle, the variables which have specific importance in present situation of quickened non-renewable energy source consumption just as a dangerous atmospheric deviation concerns. The current work is aimed to design and analyse hybrid composite leaf spring, in commercial vehicles. For this reason, measurements of leaf spring used in broadly acclaimed business vehicle Tata 407 have been utilized. The goal is to compare the stress, deformation and weight decrease feasible through utilization of crossover/hybrid composite leaf spring when contrasted with regular leaf spring. The composite material selected for this purpose is glass fibre reinforced polymer (E-glass/epoxy). It has been observed that material combination of 2 Eglass + 3EN45 results in weight reduction of 18.14 kg in one leaf spring, which is practically 50% of the conventional leaf spring. lEglass +4sup9 have 50% higher cost than the conventional spring but have lower stress value compared to conventional leaf spring & has achieved weight reduction of 14.77 kg in one leaf spring.