Static Analysis and Fatigue Life prediction of Composite Leaf Spring for a Light Commercial Vehicle (TATA ACE)

Composite materials consist of two or more physically dissimilar and instinctively separable components called reinforcement and matrix. These two components can be mixed in a restricted way to achieve optimum properties, which are superior to the properties of each individual component. Composite materials have been widely used in automobile industry because of its high strength and modulus to weight ratio, low cost and flexibility in material and structure design. The suspension leaf spring is one of the potential items for weight reduction in automobile as it accounts for ten to twenty percent of the unsprung weight. This helps in achieving the vehicle with improv