REVIEW OF DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALMONO LEAF SPRING

Abstract

Composite materials have attracted all researchers due to its light weight and high strength. Today’s need of manufacturing industries is to make the automobiles fuel efficient. Overall Weight reduction of the vehicle is the main issue in automobile industries. Weight reduction can be achieved primarily by the introduction of better material, design optimization and better manufacturing processes. The automobile industry has shown increased interest in the replacement of steel spring with composite leaf spring due to high strength to weight ratio. In this paper main focus is to review all such work in which the weight reduction of the vehicle was achieved by considering leaf spring. Many of authors suggested that weight reduction can be achieved by using composite material having suitable properties and capable of carrying such heavy load of the vehicle. Different methods for analysing and manufacturing for composite leaf spring are also discussed. It wasshown that the weight reduction can be easily achieved but there are more aspects which should also beconsider i.e. cost, strength, and new composite materials.