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Design of Diaphragm Spring Clutch

The document discusses the design of a diaphragm spring clutch. It explains that a clutch system connects and disconnects the engine and gearbox, and assists with gentle engagement and disengagement. When the clutch engages, slipping occurs between surfaces like the pressure plate, clutch disc, and flywheel, generating heat. High relative sliding velocities produce high heat, leading to thermal deformation problems. The high thermal stresses between contacting surfaces during slipping are a main cause of clutch failure. The objectives are to analyze the clutch disc's thermo-mechanics using ANSYS, find parameters like thermal stresses and temperature distribution from friction heating, and validate the results.

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Design of Diaphragm Spring Clutch

The document discusses the design of a diaphragm spring clutch. It explains that a clutch system connects and disconnects the engine and gearbox, and assists with gentle engagement and disengagement. When the clutch engages, slipping occurs between surfaces like the pressure plate, clutch disc, and flywheel, generating heat. High relative sliding velocities produce high heat, leading to thermal deformation problems. The high thermal stresses between contacting surfaces during slipping are a main cause of clutch failure. The objectives are to analyze the clutch disc's thermo-mechanics using ANSYS, find parameters like thermal stresses and temperature distribution from friction heating, and validate the results.

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Design of Diaphragm Spring Clutch.

A clutch system is one of the most important components of a vehicle that plays a vital role in
the transmission of power and control of motion from one component to another. The main task
of the clutch is to connect and disconnect the engine and the gearbox, and assist a gentle
engagement. When the friction clutch begins to engage, slipping occurs between the contact
surfaces such as pressure plate, clutch disc and flywheel and due to this slipping, heat energy will
be generated in the interfaces friction surfaces. At high relative sliding velocity, high quantity of
frictional heat is generated which lead to high temperature rise on the clutch disc surfaces and
hence thermomechanical problems such as thermal deformations and thermoelastic instability
can occur. Hence high thermal stress & contact stresses can lead to thermal cracking . The high
thermal stresses, generated between the contacting surfaces of clutch system such as pressure
plate, clutch disc and flywheel due to the frictional heating during the slipping, are considered to
be one of the main reasons of clutch failure for contact surfaces. In some cases temperature
exceeds the maximum temperature limit of the material and eventually leads to premature
failure.

Objectives
Design of Diaphragm Spring Clutch.
1. Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of Clutch Disc using boundary conditions in Ansys Software.
2. Finding out parameters as like thermal stresses, temperature distribution etc. due to frictional
heating in the Clutch Disc by Ansys software.
3. Validation of Result.

Input dataEngine power-84kw


Engine torque- 320 Nm
Max torque rpm-1800-2000
Clamp load-900 kg
Outer diameter of friction plate-280 mm

9000= 3.14p(2002-1202)
Where D1 is assume as 120mm
Then p=0.45n/mm2

Angular velocity
w= 2N/60
w=21800/60
w=180rad/sec
then temperature distribution is T
T=E/mc
E=pt
Where p=power=84Kw
t=1min
E=840001
E=84000J
Then T = 84000/900500
T=0.930C

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