Open AccessFINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF HELICAL COIL COMPRESSION SPRING FOR THREE WHEELER AUTOMOTIVE FRONT SUSPENSION
Author(s) -
Tausif M. Mulla,
Sunil J. Kadam,
Vaibhav S. Kengar
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of mechanical and industrial engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2231-6477
DOI - 10.47893/ijmie.2013.1130
Subject(s) - coil spring , spring (device) , automotive industry , finite element method , structural engineering , stress (linguistics) , suspension (topology) , compression (physics) , front (military) , electromagnetic coil , reliability (semiconductor) , engineering , mechanical engineering , materials science , composite material , mathematics , physics , electrical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , power (physics) , quantum mechanics , homotopy , pure mathematics , aerospace engineering
The current paper deals with the stress analysis of a helical coil compression spring, which is employed in three wheeler’s auto-rickshaw belonging to the medium segment of the Indian automotive market. In the design of this kind of spring both the elastic characteristics and the fatigue strength have to be considered as significant aspects. In addition to this particular elastic property, as a consequence of the research effort in reducing the mass of components typical of the automotive industry, these springs have to face very high working stresses. The structural reliability of the spring must therefore be ensured. So for this purpose the static stress analysis using finite element method has been done in order to find out the detailed stress distribution of the spring.