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- Title
NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF GLASS FIBER EPOXY DRIVE SHAFT.
- Authors
SRINIVASAN, R.; RAMKUMAR, R.
- Abstract
The concept of weight reduction in drive shaft using fiber reinforced plastics has existed over a decade. A similar approach is used here by replacing the conventional metal drive shaft by the glass fiber reinforced plastics. This paper analyzes the composite drive shaft using Ansys workbench for the replacement of conventional steel drive shaft. The uses of composite material such as glass fiber with proper resins resulted in remarkable achievements in automobile industry because of its greater specific strength and specific modulus, improved fatigue and corrosion resistances and reduction in energy requirements due to reduction in weight as compared to steel shaft. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis is carried out to investigate the structure of the laminate. The composite drive shaft reduces the weight by 69.58% for Glass/Epoxy when compared with conventional steel drive shaft.
- Subjects
GLASS fibers; COMPUTER simulation; COMPOSITE materials; CORROSION resistance; AUTOMOBILE industry
- Publication
i-manager's Journal on Mechanical Engineering, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 4, p50
- ISSN
2230-9055
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26634/jme.11.4.18109