• Corpus ID: 15694159

Design and Analysis of a Leaf Spring for automobile suspension system: A Review

@inproceedings{Baviskar2013DesignAA,
  title={Design and Analysis of a Leaf Spring for automobile suspension system: A Review},
  author={R K Baviskar and Bhamre and Sarode},
  year={2013}
}

• R. Baviskar, Bhamre, Sarode
• Published 2013
• Engineering

The aim of this review paper is to represent a general study on the design, analysis of leaf spring. The suspension system in a vehicle significantly affects the behavior of vehicle, i.e. vibration characteristics including ride comfort, stability etc. Leaf springs are commonly used in the vehicle suspension system and are subjected to millions of varying stress cycles leading to fatigue failure. A lot of research has been done for improving the performance of leaf spring. Now the automobile industry has shown interest in the replacement of steel spring with composite leaf spring. In general, it is found that fiberglass material has better strength characteristic and lighter in weight as compare to steel for leaf spring. In this paper ther e is reviewed some papers on t he design and analysis leaf spring performance and fatigue life prediction of leaf spring. There is also the analysis of failure in leaf spring. Also the analysis of leaf spring with ansys is done. The automakers can reduce product development cost and time while improving the safety, comfort, and durability of the vehicles they produce. The predictive capability of CAE tools has progressed to the point where much of the design verification is now done using computer simulation rather than physical prototype testing.