Enhancement of Structural Strength of Cotter Joint with Composite Material Alumina Saffil using ANSYS Structural

In this article we have studied so many authors to get the parameters which affect the performance of cotter joint. we found that factors and parameters such as construction and size of the cotter joint, mechanical properties of cotter joint, optimization methods for cotter joint, innovative design of cotter joint, material of cotter joint are the parameters which can be optimized for getting better results of structural performance enhancement of cotter joint. Following the review process we modeled a 3d geometry of cotter joint in Catia v5 and performed structural analysis on Ansys 14.0. We have done a comparative analysis with original material of cotter joint i.e. structural steel and replacement material which is alumina saffil which is a composite material. We found out by solution of the analysis that alumina saffil is suitable for manufacturing of cotter joint since we got less total deformation for alumina saffil when compared with the conventional material of cotter joint i.e. structural steel. The values of stresses and strains were found to be optimum as well. These all contributed to increase the structural performance of cotter joint.