• Mahesh A. Khot
• Atul Talape
• Swapnl Chandgude
• Pankaj Katre
• Rohan Kare

Now a days, advanced composite materials offer significant advantages in strength and stiffness, which can be achieved along with light weight, relative to conventional metallic materials. Modern composites using fiber-reinforced matrices of various types have created a revolution in high-performance structures in recent years. Leaf springs are one of the oldest suspension components in the automobile industry and they are still frequently in use. The current leaf spring is multiple leaf spring types with a steel material. It has high weight, low natural frequency, high corrosion, more noise and the property of material is changing when the load is acting, therefore current multiple leaf spring needs to be changed. Due to this, the automobile industry has also shown more interest in the replacement of steel spring with composite leaf spring. This paper contains study of leaf spring which is made by steel material and different composite materials. The comparison of properties of steel material and composite material shows that replacement of steel leaf spring with composite material can be done. Composite material offers significant advantages as like more strength, less weight and hence more strength to weight ratio, more natural frequency, etc.

Leaf spring, Steel material, Composite material

"STUDY OF COMPOSITE AS AN ALTERNATIVE MATERIAL FOR LEAF SPRING: A REVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.569-574, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAH06100.pdf

"STUDY OF COMPOSITE AS AN ALTERNATIVE MATERIAL FOR LEAF SPRING: A REVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp569-574, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAH06100.pdf