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Design and Analysis of PLA and Carbon Fiber Mono Leaf Spring for Small Commercial Vehicles

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Advances in Engineering Design (FLAME 2022)

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Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has been used to study and analyze a single leaf of the steel spring used in the Tata Ace© as its rear suspension. To compare the result, a single leaf composite spring has been designed by 3D modeling and optimized. Main consideration was to optimize the spring geometry to obtain spring that has maximum stress and is able to withstand the external static forces without failure. Deformation and stresses are the design constraints whereas width at the points and area of the cross section are the variables of the design. The comparison between PLA (Polylactic Acid), Carbon Fiber (390 GPa) and High Carbon Steel will be the primary objective of this paper in order to analyze max. and the min. stress on the mono leaf spring using different category of Materials.

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    Lavepreet Singh, Shreyansh Gupta & Rahul Katiyar

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Singh, L., Gupta, S., Katiyar, R. (2023). Design and Analysis of PLA and Carbon Fiber Mono Leaf Spring for Small Commercial Vehicles. In: Sharma, R., Kannojiya, R., Garg, N., Gautam, S.S. (eds) Advances in Engineering Design. FLAME 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3033-3_54

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