Author : Lakshmi Rajan P 1
Date of Publication :19th June 2019
Abstract: Clutch plate liners are usually made up of luminium alloys or high carbon steels. One of the main advantage of aluminium alloy is that it is very ductile and it can be easily machined. Due to these reasons, it is suitable for the clutch plates. In order to reduce the weight of clutch plate material without affecting its life and effectiveness, we fabricated a new aluminium composite (Al-SiC-CSA) with Aluminium-92%, Silicon carbide-5% and coconut shell -3%. This composite is durable with low density and high strength. In this work aluminium composite is fabricated and wear test, hardness test and bending tests were conducted in order to compare it with the existing one. 3D model of the clutch plate is made in Creo 2.0 and analyzed with the help of ANSYS 15.0
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