Present time the main issue of automobile industry are weight reduction. The automobile industry has looking for any implementation or modification to reduce the weight of the vehicle. The suspension leaf spring is one of the potential items for weight reduction in automobile as it accounts for 10% to 20% of the unsprung weight. The introduction of composite leaf spring made of glass fiber rein...

Increasing competition and innovation in automobile sector tends to modify the existing products by new and advanced material products. A suspension system of vehicle is also an area where these innovations are carried out regularly.Leaf springs are one of the oldest suspension components that are being still used widely inautomobiles. Weight reduction is also given due importance by automobile...

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1Research Scholar, Industrial & Production Engineering Department, Shri G.S. Institute of Technology & Science, 23 Park Road, Indore, M.P., India 2Assistant Professor, Industrial & Production Engineering Department, Shri G.S. Institute of Technology & Science, 23 Park Road, Indore, M.P., India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***------------------------------...

Customers expect a modern automobile to be comfortable and safe. The spring damper system in the wheel suspension is the most important component to ensure both. During the design process of the spring damping a physically based conflict between these two main functions arises. For passive systems improving the driving comfort will always worsen the driving safety and vice versa. We developed a...

An automobile industry have an interest in replacement of conventional leaf spring with composite leaf spring to get better performance with less weight. This paper deals with by replacing the conventional leaf spring with composite leaf spring. The dimensions of an existing conventional steel leaf spring of a light commercial vehicle were taken to fabricate the special die which is further use...

Reducing weight while increasing or maintaining strength of products is getting to be highly important research issue in this modern world. Composite materials are one of the material families which are attracting researchers and being solutions of such issue. In this paper we describe design and analysis of composite leaf spring. The objective is to compare the stresses and weight saving of co...