Use of natural fibres is growing in day to day life. Sisal fibre is one of those fibres. Sisal fibre is used to increase the strength of any component. The actual two-wheeler foot rest study is carried out. The sisal fibre foot rest is fabricated in order to replace the actual aluminium foot rest and then the study is carried out between the original and sisal fibre model of foot rest. The main aim of project is to optimize footrest of two-wheeler using natural fibre composite. The foot rest is composed of sisal fibre. The 3D model is drawn with the help of CATIA V5 software. The analysis is done by using ANSYS 19.2 software. Three different orientations of sisal fibre are considered for analysis. The three-point bending experimental testing is done with the help of Universal Testing Machine. The simulation and experimental results are compared. From experimentation peak load for aluminium is 640N and for sisal fibre is 1820N this shows that strength of the footrest is increased. The weight of the aluminium and sisal fibre is 305.8 g and 136.5 g respectively. From this it can be seen that 55% weight reduction is done. Amongst three orientations of sisal fibre sample 1 i.e., sisal fire footrest with orientation 0°-0°-0°-0°-0°-0°-0°-0° gives lesser deformation compared to other two samples which has orientation as 0°-45°-0°-45°-0°-45°-0°-45° and 0°-90°-0°-90°-0°-90°-0°-90°. So, it can be concluded that sample1 of sisal fibre footrest can be used as a replacement of aluminium.
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