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Presently the automobile manufacturers are facing challenges of improvements in the quality andperformance of the components together with the reduction in weight and cost of manufacturing. Efforts are directedtowards the use of alternative materials in design which results in increase of strength to weight ratio. The use ofcomposite materials is increasing in the design of automobile components due to their light weight and costs. The presentwork attempts to study the feasibility of select composite materials in the design of helical compression spring used inautomobile suspension systems. The design of helical compression spring is first analyzed for the conventional steelmaterial and then compared with that of for the composites used as spring materials study their behaviors at the differentloading conditions. Composite materials considered for the analysis are Eglasss/Epoxy and Carbon/Epoxy. Themodeling of the helical spring has been done using software and simulation were performed using ANSYS to predict thestresses, deflections at the stated loads. It was found that the stresses developed in conventional steel helical compressionspring is more as compared to the stresses developed in composite material helical compression spring. Also thedeflection is observed to be higher for composite materials. The results indicate that composite materials are feasibleoption at normal loading conditions which will also reduce the manufacturing and maintenance costs

Yogesh P Shingane, Dr.D.M.Patel, Prof.H.G.Patil, “Review on Finite element analysis of two wheeler suspension helical spring for conventional and composite material”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 7, pp. 222-226, July 2017.