Design, Manufacture and Analysis of Al/SiC MMCs for Connecting Rod

Abstract

The Metal matrix composite materials is particularly are widely used in automotive engineering applications. In this work discuss with production of Al/SiC composite and investigate it's suitability for the application on Connecting Rod. The results were compared with conventional material C70 Steel. The connecting rod is manufactured using the stir casting method. The basic properties were obtained by mechanical testing. The test results were used for FEA. The connecting rod is designed and meshed using solid works and hyper mesh, and then analysis is done used by ANSYS work bench 14.0 software. The results show that the composite connecting rod is more efficient than the conventional ones.