Design and Analysis of Carbon Fibre Drive Shaft Using Classical Theories

Authors

  • Akshay Shrishrimal Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Pune, India
  • Pranav Patil Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Pune, India
  • Ritesh Mane Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Pune, India

Keywords:

Drive shaft, composite material, ANSYS, Genetic Algorithmetc

Abstract

In vehicles drive shaft is one of the important components. A drive shaft is a rotating shaft that transmits power from the
engine to the differential gear of a rear wheel drive vehicles. Generally an alloy steel drive shaft is used in automotive,
nowadaysthissteeldriveshaftisreplacedbycompositematerialdriveshaft.The advanced composite materials such as graphite,
carbon, Kevlar and glass with suitable resins are widely used because of their high specific strength and high specific
module. Due to replacement of composite material can results in considerable amount of weight reduction as compared to
steel shaft. In this study composite shaft and genetic algorithm is successfully applied to minimize the weight of shaft which is
subjected to the constraints such as torque transmission and fundamental natural frequency. Our main aim is to study its
design procedure along with finite element analysis. Many researchers have been investigated about drive
shaft.Thisworkdealswiththereplacementofconventionalsteeldriveshaftwithhighstrengthcarbon/epoxy composite drive shaft.
The design parameters were optimized with the help of genetic algorithm (G.A) with the objective of minimizing the weight of
composite drive shaft. The result of GAareused for modeling of Carbon/epoxy composite drives haft and steel drive shaft
using CAD soft ware to perform static, buckling and modal analysis of both drive shaft using ANSYS software.

Published

2018-01-25

How to Cite

Akshay Shrishrimal, Pranav Patil, & Ritesh Mane. (2018). Design and Analysis of Carbon Fibre Drive Shaft Using Classical Theories. International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), 5(1), 286–296. Retrieved from https://ijaerd.org/index.php/IJAERD/article/view/2124

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