• Ujjal Kalita

A cam and follower are subjected to very high stresses which cause wear of the cam. Owing to the eccentricity of the cam, high dynamic stresses are developed which results in noise, vibration and cyclic loading on the bearing of the camshaft and hence produce a reduction in bearing life. The work will report on studies of Al-SiC as a possible alternative material for the camshaft. (AlSiC) Metal matrix composite offers outstanding properties for a number of automotive components. In the present work, camshaft is designed in Creo Parametric 2.0 software. An attempt is made to study static and thermal analysis of the cam. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is performed to see the stress variations at critical locations using ANSYS 14.0 software on camshaft periphery by applying the boundary conditions. The mixing of material is done using Stir casting which is simple and less expensive as compared to other types of casting. For the analysis of Aluminium Silicon Carbide sample, we performed SEM with EDS to get the microscopic structure at an accuracy. Here we have also used Vickers hardness test to check the strength of material for best results this method was used and at last the final impact test was performed to see the maximum energy this composite could withstand before fracture. For impact testing Charpy impact test was performed at different notch angles of 300, 450, 600 at three different temperature points: a) Room temperature, b) 500C and c) 1000C.

Cam, Aluminium Silicon Carbide, EDS, Impact test

"DESIGN ANALYSIS OF CAM SHAFT USING Al-SiC COMPOSITE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.680-686, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREL06106.pdf

"DESIGN ANALYSIS OF CAM SHAFT USING Al-SiC COMPOSITE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp680-686, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREL06106.pdf