Abstract: In series of automobile engine components a connecting rod is highly critical and re-searchable one. Connecting rod is the intermediate link between the piston and the crank. And is responsible to transmit the push and pull from the piston pin to crank pin, thus converting the reciprocating motion of the piston to rotary motion of the crank. Generally connecting rods are manufactured using carbon steel and in recent days aluminium alloys are finding its application in connecting rod. In this work connecting rod is replaced by aluminium based composite material reinforced with silicon carbide and fly ash. And it also describes the modeling and analysis of connecting rod. FEA analysis was carried out by considering two materials. The parameter like von misses stress, von misses strain, displacements, and weight reductions were obtained from ANSYS software. Design of connecting rod which is designed by machine design approach is compared with actual production drawing of connecting rod as well as maintaining its cost effectively.
Keywords: Connecting rod, Fatigue, FEA, Composite.
Title: Design and Optimization of Connecting Rod
Author: Dilip Verma, Mohit Juneja, Shubham Jain, Vinayak Rathore, Wahid Khan, Harshit Goyal
International Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Technology
ISSN 2348-7593 (Online)
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