Analysis of Notched Shaft of ATV using Composite Material

Notched shaft is the most important component to any power transmission application; automotive notch Shaft is one of this. A notch shaft, also known a s a propeller shaft or Cardan shaft, it is a mechanical part that transmits the torque generated by a vehicle's engine into usable motive force to propel the vehicle. Substituting composite structures for convention al metallic structures has many advantage s because of higher specific stiffness and strength of composite materials. This work deals with the replacement of conventional steel notched shafts with fiber glass epoxy composite notched shaft for an automotive application. The design parameters were optimized with the objective of minimizing the weight of composite notched shaft. The design optimization also improves the performance of notched shaft. Present work deals with FEA analysis of composite shaft with different degree of orientation of glass fibers. It includes the modeling of shaft in CATIA. The meshing and boundary condition application will be carried using Hypermesh, Stuctural analysis and modal analysis of composite shaft will be carried out using ANSYS.