ABSTRACT
Piston endures the cyclic gas pressure and the inertial forces at work, and this working condition may cause the fatigue damage of piston such as piston side wear, piston head cracks and so on. One of the design criteria is the endeavour to reduce the structural weight and thus to reduce fuel consumption. This has been made possible by improved engine design. These improvements include increased use of lightweight materials, such as advanced ultra-high tensile strength steels, aluminium and magnesium alloys, polymers, and carbon-fiber reinforced composite materials. Here the life of the piston is improved by means of introducing a new composite matrix of aluminum with particulates of silicon carbide which has the maximum wear factor and which has the same performance except a little bit variation in properties called Al 6061 alloy in reinforcement with Silicon carbide. The piston is designed and analyzed through aluminum and silicon carbide in the ratio 2:3. A parametric model of a piston is done in 3D modeling software Autodesk Inventor. Further, it is analyzed for its deformation characteristics through ANSYS Workbench software.
