Buckling Sensitivity of Ultra Fine Grained Material AA2618 Connecting Rod

Abstract

The objective of the work is to evaluate the best design parameters of connecting rod using Ultrafine Grained Material AA2618. The critical buckling stress for existing material (C70S6) is high and the primary objective is to optimize connecting rod in terms of reduction of weight and stress. The numerical investigation has been carried out using ANSYS. Modeling of connecting rod is done in Solid works designing software. The analysis is performed on Ansys to calculate the critical buckling stress and Von-mises stress is calculated in the stress analysis by applying the maximum external load. The analysis results are plotted graphically and results are compared to find the useful outcomes which are used to predict the structural behavior of connecting rod under given load.