Fatigue Analysis of Composite Drive Shaft

Abstract

The projects aims at replacing the conventional drive shaft with composite drive shaft which will provide us the better mechanical properties i.e (Torque transmitting capacity, and fatigue life of the shaft).The research paper will include the comparison of these properties of conventional steel shaft with the composite drive shaft .The drive shaft selected is applicable to TATA 407 pick up vehicle which is at present using the conventional steel drive shaft. Our main aim is to show that the fatigue life of composite drive shaft is much better than conventional steel drive shaft.