Modeling and Analysis of Clutch Facing Made up of Biodegradable Coir Fibre Based Composite Material

Abstract

In past hundred years almost all components of automobile have undergone improvement due to technological advancement. Automobile sector is one of the major environment polluting sectors today. It is duty of automobile engineers to provide new and better solutions to ensure environment protection and safety. Availability of new environment-friendly composite materials helps automobile engineers to give environmental friendly solutions. One of such available new material is biodegradable natural fibre composite materials particularly coconut coir fibre based composite material. Scope of using this material in automotive industry is enormous. This paper deals with feasibility of using environment friendly coconut coir based composite material as clutch facing material. This has been done by modeling and analysis of clutch facings made up of structural steel and coir based composite material using Solid Works software and ANSYS Workbench respectively. Further comparison of mechanical properties of clutch facings made up of structural steel and coir based composite material has been done.