A Study of Drive Shaft Assembly

The weight reduction of the driveshaft can have a certain role in the general weight reduction of the vehicle and is a highly desirable destination. Substituting composite structures for conventional metallic structures has many advantages because of higher specific stiffness and durability of composite materials. The advanced composite materials such as graphite, carbon, Kevlar and Glass with suitable resins are widely practiced because of their high specific strength and high specific modulus. Advanced composite materials seem ideally suited for long, power driver shaft applications. The automotive industry is exploiting composite material technology for structural component construction in order to obtain the reduction of the weight without a reduction in vehicle quality and dependability. It is known that energy conservation is one of the most important objectives in vehicle design and reduction of weight is one of the most efficient steps to get this effect. In reality, on that point is about a direct proportion between the weight of a vehicle and its fuel use, especially in city driving. This task is an analysis performed on drive shaft with different composite materials and concludes that the utilization of composite materials for drive shaft would induce less amount of stress which additionally reduces the weight of the vehicle. CATIA is the modelling package used to model the drive shaft arrangement and ANSYS is the analysis package used to carry out analysis.

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Development of Aerospace Composite Structures Through Vacuum-Enhanced Resin Transfer Moulding Technology (VERTMTy)

Composites and Advanced Materials for Industrial Applications - Advances in Chemical and Materials Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5216-1.ch005 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 99-111

Author(s):

Raghu Raja Pandiyan Kuppusamy

Keyword(s):

Composite Materials ◽

Composite Structures ◽

Polymer Matrix Composites ◽

Wide Spectrum ◽

Low Cost ◽

Matrix Composites ◽

Resin Transfer Moulding ◽

Advanced Composite ◽

Advanced Composite Materials ◽

Transfer Moulding

Quality products with low cost manufacturing routes are the major objectives for the product development in any application. The current statement is evident for polymer-matrix composites, particularly in high end applications such as aerospace and mass transit structures. These applications require advanced composite materials tailored to meet the property demands posted by dynamic load conditions, and hence, the use of wide spectrum of constituents and architectures are vital to cater the needs. Consequently, the development of novel composite materials with the permutations of ingredients leads to the innovative processing techniques. To address the gap in the manufacturing with economical processing routes of thick sectioned advanced composite parts showing superior properties at different wall sections, an innovative composite manufacturing technology coupling resin transfer moulding (RTM) processing and vacuum applications, namely vacuum enhanced resin transfer moulding technology (VERTMTy), is conceptualized, proposed, and developed.

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Thickness Measurement of Composite Material Using Eddy Current Testing

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.79-82.1995 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 79-82 ◽

pp. 1995-1998 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pei Hua Chen ◽

Ping Jie Huang ◽

Bo Ye ◽

Guo Hou Li ◽

Ze Kui Zhou

Keyword(s):

Composite Material ◽

Composite Materials ◽

Carbon Fiber ◽

Eddy Current ◽

Fiber Composite ◽

Thickness Measurement ◽

Carbon Fiber Composite ◽

Specific Strength ◽

Advanced Composite ◽

Advanced Composite Materials

Composite materials have some obvious advantages such as high specific strength 、high specific modulus 、corrosion resistant 、abrasion resistant and so on, it is believed to be highly competitive compare to other materials. Advanced composite materials have been used more and more widely in defense industry, among them carbon fiber reinforced resin base composite material is most representative [1] ,there has great value for the study of carbon fiber composite materials. Eddy current is a nondestructive testing technology widely used on metal materials, the using of eddy current technology in aviation domain has a long history, but there is few reports on composite material with eddy current NDT. Experiments show that eddy current used on composite material is feasible, and the result is satisfactory. The thickness measurements of carbon fiber advanced composite materials have been done in two different ways.

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Residual Strength of Composites during and after Fire Exposure

Journal of Fire Sciences ◽

10.1177/073490419301100305 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 255-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

U. Sorathia ◽

C. Beck ◽

T. Dapp

Keyword(s):

Composite Materials ◽

Residual Strength ◽

Composite Structures ◽

Damage Control ◽

Structural Performance ◽

Fire Exposure ◽

Advanced Composite ◽

Advanced Composite Materials ◽

Flammability Characteristics ◽

Relationship Of

The flammability characteristics of conventional and advanced composite materials have been extensively studied within the DOD. However, the structural performance of composite materials, the residual strength of composite structures, and the consequences of composite usage on ship sur vivability and damage control during and after fire have not yet been fully assessed. Residual flexural strength retained (%RSR) after exposure to 25 kW/m2 for a duration of 20 minutes (ASTM E-662) for selected conventional and advanced composite materials is presented. A methodology is presented for the assess ment of the residual strength of composite materials during fire exposure by inter-relationship of mechanical property, temperature, thickness and time.

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