Design and optimization of automobile propeller shaft with composite materials using FEM Analysis

  Atul Kumar Raikwar,  Prof. Prabhash Jain,  Rajkumari Raikwar

The main aim of this work is to accomplish FEM analysis and to optimize the design & weight with composite materials. For that it has been tried to identify most suitable composite material which may the alternates in place of conventional material, for that five material have been analyze for same design configuration load and dimensions. These materials are SM45C alloy steel as conventional propeller shaft material, Thermoplastic polyimide with 30% carbon fiber, Kevlar Epoxy, Epoxy carbon_UD, and Epoxy EGlass_UD. The FEM analysis have been done all the above material to get the best material as an alternate in place of conventional propeller shaft material and result are discussed that material like thermoplastic polyimide with 30% carbon fiber Epoxy carbon UD may be used as alternate material for propeller shaft. it has been seen from the study that the thermoplastic polyimide with 30% carbon fiber is the most favorable material as alternate in place of conventional material because the maximum stress generated as same as conventional propeller shaft material and the natural frequency of the thermoplastic polyimide with 30% carbon fiber is very closed to conventional material. The weight is optimizing up to the 82.04% as compared to conventional propeller shaft material.

Keywords- Key word: propeller shaft, composite material, FEM analysis, Design & weight optimization etc.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1604007
Page Number(s) - 39-48
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 4 | October 2016
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Atul Kumar Raikwar,  Prof. Prabhash Jain,  Rajkumari Raikwar,   "Design and optimization of automobile propeller shaft with composite materials using FEM Analysis", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 4, pp.39-48, October 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1604007.pdf