PROJECT POSTER DESIGN & ANALYSIS OF LEAF SPRING

Pradnyesh Umanand Bagade

2015/ 2016

BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering

AME6001: Individual Project

AIM

DESIGN & ANALYSIS

To design and analyse the use of Leaf Spring

of a commercial light vehicle.

Theoretical Analysis

SolidWorks Modelling

TABULATED RESULTS

OBJECTIVES
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To design the leaf spring for various load condition.

To compare the load carrying capacity, deflection and
the stresses generated between a composite leaf
spring and steel leaf spring.
To analyse the deflection in leaf spring by using
different loads.

PROJECT OUTLINE
CONCLUSION

The project report was carried out in the

following order:

Studying in detail about leaf springs.

Doing theoretical calculations for
various load conditions.
Designing the leaf spring in SolidWorks.
Analysing the designed leaf spring for
various load conditions.
Plotting graphs for the analysed results
Compiling all the data into a project
report.

SolidWorks Analysis

This project report is done for a commercial light vehicle,

and the design and analysis results shows that the composite
material leaf spring can be manufactured and used as the design is
suitable for all the loading conditions.
The deflection we got by both the theoretical and
SolidWorks results tells us that the deflection in composite leaf
spring is more than of the steel leaf spring but the stresses
produced due to the different loading conditions tells that the
stresses in composite leaf spring is very less than that of a steel
leaf spring.