Analyze the Design of Leaf spring by Solid works and Ansys to Improve the Vehicle Performance

Abstract

The energy consumption and pollution gas control of cars are two major problems mostly in present era. The automotive industries are trying to build fresh vehicles that can provide high performance at low cost to meet this problem. The most effective way to improve fuel economy is to try to reduce the vehicle's weight. Using a better materials, improved design, and enhanced manufacturing processes can all help decrease mass. Metal alloys have become such a good substitute material for traditional steel due to improvements in mechanical properties and weight reduction. Due to its improved mechanical properties of composite materials, a variety of parts for automobiles can be replaced by composites. This material has higher elastic strength and hardness than steel materials. It has a higher strength-to-weight ratio as well. Thus, the leaf spring used for carrying out entire weight of the car is the best choice for replacing carbon steel with composite material from several components of one of the automotive components. The research has been carried out on the Mahindra Pickup model with the same dimensional geometry to reduce the weight Chromium-vanadium steel, nickel-chromium-molybdenum steel, silicon manganese steel, and tungsten chromium steel were chosen for the leaf spring because they are high strength and inexpensive materials with similar and geometric properties to the current leaf spring. On ANSYS 16.0.0, the study was carried out. In order to finalize the most acceptable material for real-time applications, a comparative analysis was performed between steel and steel leaf spring alloys in terms of strength and weight.