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Abstract: Substituting composite structures for conventional metallic structures has many advantages because of
higher specific stiffness and strength of composite materials. In the recent days, there is a huge demand for a light weight
material such as fiber reinforced polymer composites seems to be a promising solution to this arising demand. These
materials have gained attention due to their applications in the field of automotive, aerospace, sports goods, medicines and
household appliances. The overall objective of this work is to analyze a composite drive shaft for power transmission.
Substituting composite structures for conventional metallic structures has many advantages because of higher specific
stiffness and strength of composite materials. This work deals with the replacement of conventional steel drive shafts with an
Kevlar/epoxy or E glass polythene resin composite drive shaft for an automotive application. The intention of work is
to minimize the weight of drive shaft. In this present work an attempt has been to estimate the deflection, stresses, and
natural frequencies under subjected loads using FEA (Ansys). Further comparison carried out for both loads using FEA.
Further comparison carried out for both optimized and stress intensity factor found for both Steel and composite drive shafts.
Keywords: Conventional shaft, drive shaft, composite shaft, composite material, analysis, ansys etc.
was developed as a direct response to industry shafts can be severely limited by the critical
demand for greater performance and efficiency in speed and large mass inertia moment of metal
light trucks, vans and high performance automobiles. shaft, it was investigated in the second part of the
The main reason for this was significant saving in paper. Thomson [4] has discussed mechanical
weight of drive shaft; the results showed that the properties of a sandwich composites containing
final composite drive shaft has amass of about 2.7 interfacial cracks or impact damage when loaded
kg, while this amount for steel drive shaft is about edgewise compression, flexure or shear. The
10 kg. The use of composite drive shafts in race cars implication of these findings on the structural
has gained great attention in recent decades. When a integrity of mine hunting ship made from GFRP/PVC
steel drive shaft breaks, its components, are thrown in foam sandwich composite is discussed. Potluri et al.,
all directions such as balls, it is also possible that the [5] have investigated stitch bonded sandwich
drive shaft makes a hole in the ground and throw the structures of close cellular core and woven
car into the air. But when a composite drive shaft broadcloth. The stiffness of the sandwich panels, up
breaks, it is divided into fine fibers that do not have to the top skin failure increases with increase in stitch
any danger for the driver. Numerous studies have density. Kim et al., [6] has studied the failure mode
been carried out to investigate the optimal design and and energy absorption capabilities of different kinds
analysis of composite drive shafts with different of circular tubes made of carbon, Kevlar, and carbon
materials and layers orientation. C. Sivakandhan & – Kevlar hybrid fibers composite with epoxy resin.
P.sureshprabhu studied that the epoxy/glass fibre Based on the linear regression analysis results, the
composite can be employed in the drive shaft. crushing parameters generally showed good
Moreover, author believes that the real ANSYS correlation with compressive strength and shear
analysis should be done to verify the stability of modulus.
developed composite material under the proposed
concept. The usage of composite materials and III. AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORK
optimization techniques has resulted in considerable
amount of weight saving when compared to This work deals with the analysis of conventional
conventional steel drive shaft. These results are steel shaft and composite shaft .Results proves that
encouraging and suggest that glass/epoxy composite how beneficial is the replacement of a conventional
materials effectively used in engineering applications. steel drive shaft with E-Glass/ Epoxy glass polyester
Pollard [2] studied different applications of composite resin, Kevlar/Epoxy composite drive shafts for an
drive shafts for automotive applications. He automobile application. To estimate the deflection,
compared the advantages and disadvantages of them stresses, natural frequencies under loads using
at various conditions. Rangaswamy and et al. [3] ANSYS. This present work an attempt has been to
optimized and analyzed an onepiece composite drive estimate the deflection, stresses, natural frequencies
shaft using genetic algorithm and ANSYS. They under subjected loads using FEA. Further comparison
found that the use of composite materials lead to carried out for both conventional and composite shaft
the significant reduction in weight compared to
steel drive shaft. They also reported that the fiber IV. DEMERITS OF A CONVENTIONAL
orientation of a composite shaft strongly affects DRIVE SHAFT
the buckling torque. Rangaswamy & Vijyarangan
have investigated the manufacturing of composite 1. They have less specific modulus and strength
shafts for automotive applications. The composite 2. Increased weight
shaft is expected to transmit certain amount of torque, 3. Conventional steel drive shafts are usually
hence should have a certain torque capability. A manufactured in two pieces to increase the
factor of safety of 2 is chosen and three different fundamental bending natural frequency because the
materials are investigated. Due to their high bending natural frequency of a shaft is inversely
length/diameter ratio, the torsional buckling proportional to the square of beam length and
capability of the shafts Composite Drive Shaft is a proportional to the square root of Specific modulus.
Good Strength and Weight Saving to Compare Therefore the steel drive shaft is made in two sections
Conventional Materials Design and Analysis of E connected by a support Structure, bearings and U-
Glass/Epoxy Composite Drive Shaft for Automotive joints and hence overall weight of assembly will be
Applications Rastogi implemented a FEA approach more.
to design and analyze a composite drive shaft in 4. Its corrosion resistance is less as compared with
different conditions is also studied both composite materials.
experimentally and with ANSYS modeling. In the 5. . Steel drive shafts have less damping capacity.
present work an effort has been made to design a
HM-Carbon/Epoxy composite drive shaft. A onepiece V. PURPOSE OF THE DRIVE SHAFT
composite drive shaft for rear wheel drive automotive
application is designed and analyzed using ANSYS 1. It must transmit torque from the transmission to
software. Since performance of conventional drive the differential gear box
7.4 Torsional Stress: of elements than simple beams. The large number of
When a uniform circular shaft is subjected to a orque, elements necessary through the thickness usually
it can be shown that every section of the shaft is demands that a high degree of discretization also be
subjected to a state of pure shear (Fig. 6.1), the applied in the other directions
moment of resistance developed by the shear stresses
being everywhere equal to the magnitude, and METHODOLOGY
opposite in sense, to the applied
torque. : To meet the stringent design requirement, a shaft has
to be design. In this work, we will compare the
conventional steel shaft with the composite shaft
with various material like Boron /epoxy ,keveler
/epoxy E glass polyster resin will be analyses at
+/- 45 degrees ply orientation. The material
properties of all material considered from design
consideration. The analysis will be carried out using
Graph.2.Deformation comparison
RESULT
Fig 8. Steel shaft torsional analysis
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