ANALYZING THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF

IPN COMPOSITE DRIVE SHAFT

WITH E-GLASS FIBER REINFORCEMENT

PROJECT MEMBERS
PROJECT GUIDE
ABINRAJ U V 07
SAJAN S
AAKASH ASHOKAN 02
EFFINO
ARUN VV
 ABSTRACT
The shafts are known as the familiar mechanical components which are mostly used in automobiles to
Transmit torque and rotational forces from the prime mover. The steel that are used to make
These kinds of the shafts leads to consumption of fuel due to its weight. To avoid these kinds of
circumstances
Composite materials are used. As the composite materials posses very high stiffness, low weight,
Ability to resist corrosion and energy absorption capabilities. In this study, the above characteristic of the
Composite materials are utilized by fabricating the mechanical drive shaft using a composite combo of E-
glass
Fiber CSM (0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%) and IPN resins and an experimental testing of this shaft is
Done by using torsional testing machine. A similar shaft is constructed in CATIA v5 and the numerical
analysis
Is also performed in ANSYS to cross check the results of experimental analysis. Finally the optimum
Range to which the e-glass fiber is to be mixed with IPN resins is determined.
 SCOPE OF THE WORK
Composite materials have been developed throughout this
decade under various sectors such as material science, nano tech-
nology and lot more . Out of all the different ways of implemen-
tations of composite materials in various fields, the automobile
industries provide a vast set of application oriented usage of the
composite material.
The automobile are heavy machinery that has lots of components in it. All the components provide lots of
weight, thus takes lots of fuel to make the vehicle to move. The
weight of the automobile also constitutes the amount of the fuel
consumption.
An idea of reducing the weight of the components in the automobile and to give the same efficiency as that of the
original components is being imparted. The solution for this mate-
rialistic approach is given by the composite material
 METHODOLOGY

COMPARISO FABRICATIO
DESIGN ANALYSIS
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TESTING
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 SCHEDULE
job time
Theoretical Study 05/09/2020
Designing the model 10/10/2020
Analysing 20/12/2020
Material procurement 16/01/2021
Fabrication 26/01/2021
Physical Testing 20/02/2021
Finishing 20/03/2021
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