Design and Analysis of Drive Shaft using Kevlar/Epoxy and Glass/Epoxy as a Composite Material

Frontiers in Automobile and Mechanical Engineering

Karthikeyan, P.^1 ; Gobinath, R.^1 ; Ajith Kumar, L.^1 ; Xavier Jenish, D.^1

Sathyabama University, India^1

关键词: Advanced composite materials;    Conventional steel;    Design and analysis;    Differential gears;    Energy requirements;    Model and analysis;    Resin composites;    Specific strength;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/197/1/012048/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/197/1/012048

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

In automobile industry drive shaft is one of the most important components to transmit power form the engine to rear wheel through the differential gear. Generally steel drive shaft is used in automobile industry, nowadays they are more interested to replace steel drive shaft with that of composite drive shaft. The overall objective of this paper is to analyze the composite drive shaft using to find out the best replacement for conventional steel drive shaft. The uses of advanced composite materials such as Kevlar, Graphite, Carbon and Glass with proper resins ware resulted in remarkable achievements in automobile industry because of its greater specific strength and specific modulus, improved fatigue and corrosion resistances and reduction in energy requirements due to reduction in weight as compared to steel shaft. This paper is to presents, the modeling and analysis of drive shaft using Kevlar/Epoxy and Glass/Epoxy as a composite material and to find best replacement for conventional steel drive shafts with an Kevlar/epoxy or Glass/Epoxy resin composite drive shaft. Modeling is done using CATIA software and Analysis is carried out by using ANSYS 10.0 software for easy understanding. The composite drive shaft reduces the weight by 81.67 % for Kevlar/Epoxy and 72.66% for Glass/Epoxy when compared with conventional steel drive shaft.