Developing a hybrid, carbon/glass fiber-reinforced, epoxy composite automotive drive shaft

SummaryIt is a well-known fact that natural resources are becoming increasingly scarce. Consequently, whenever possible in the machine element manufacture, metallic materials should be replaced with new artificial materials. This paper studies the possibility of replacing two cardan shafts of a truck TURBO ZETA 85.14B with one shaft made of aluminium and a composite material, while the basic requirements concerning the given load transfer and fundamental natural frequencies remain satisfied.

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“…in [7], [8]. The shafts analysed here were obtained for the case of the combination of aluminium and carbon fibre (USN150)/epoxy composites.…”

Section: Analysis Of the Stress State Of The Hybrid Al/composite Cardmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Investigation Into Hybrid Aluminium/Composite Cardan Shaft

et al. 2017

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“…A common form of composite structures is the composite laminated tube, which is widely used in fields such as oil drilling [3,4], automobile [5][6][7][8], aerospace [9,10], and civil engineering [11][12][13]. Rangaswamy et al [7] designed automotive drive shafts using E-glass/epoxy laminates and carbon/epoxy laminates.…”

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Design Optimization of Composite Laminated Tube Based on Improved Niching Evolutionary Algorithm

Zhao

Pan

2017

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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A minimum weight design is developed for a composite laminated tube considering the number of plies as one of the design variables. The objective function is found to be complex, and more than one optimal design point may exist with different numbers of plies. Existing methods based on evolutionary algorithms tend to become trapped around a local optimum and can find no more than one optimal result per calculation. Aiming at the characteristics of the objective function, an improved evolutionary algorithm (INDE for short) is established based on niching technology. The formula for calculating the distance between individuals in the niching technology is improved to satisfy the minimum weight design for the composite laminated tube. As a result, the improved niching evolutionary algorithm offers better global search ability and can find more than one optimal result per calculation for different numbers of plies.

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“…Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) and glass-fiber-reinforced plastics (GFRPs) are new materials that have high performance [1,2]. Both types of these composites have high strength-to-weight ratio and excellent fatigue strength [3], high corrosion resistance so that the material is so widely used in the fields of aerospace and automotive industries [4,5,6]. Mechanical properties and GFRPs CFRPs with epoxy-reinforced not only depend on the intrinsic characteristics of CFRPs and GFRPs of the epoxy resin, but also by the interfacial interactions in the CFRPs and GFRPs / epoxy interphase [7,8].…”

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confidence: 99%