OPTIMIZATION OF CONNECTING ROD WITH HELP OF FEA

Connecting rod is the important part of an IC Engine it transmits motion of piston to crank shaft and converts translating motion of piston into rotary motion and vice versa. From application point of view it is necessary that connecting rod must be light in weight and having good strength under fatigue or reverse loading. For this purpose generally material of connecting rod is carbon steel of aluminum alloy. In this work we take connecting rod of a Mahindra Jeep CJ-340 and change its material from Al360 to PEEK. The modeling of the connecting rod is done on Pro-E wildfire 4.0 and analysis work is done on ANSYS 11.0. The parameters like Von misses stress, Von messes strain and displacement was obtained from ANSYS software which shows reduction in weight and improvement in strength.