STRESS AND THERMAL ANALYSIS OF CLUTCH PLATE

The clutch is one of the main components in any automobile. The engine power is transmitted to the system through the clutch. The failure of this critical component during service can deter the whole application. The Finite Element Analysis is one of the means for non-destructive analysis which is used to analyse the clutch plate. The results from the FEA are accurate and hence, used worldwide for design and research engineers. For this study, an efficient and reliable analysis technique for the design of the mechanical clutch plates is used by using ansys 16.0 and mathematical calculations for analysis. This work contains stress and thermal analysis of three different design variants of single plate friction clutch plate of the automobile (Tata Super Ace). The modelling of clutch plate is done in SolidWorks software and the analysis is done in ANSYS software and the results of the three variants are compared.