International OPEN ACCESS Journal Of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) | IJMER | ISSN: 2249–6645 | www.ijmer.com | Vol. 4 | Iss. 8 | Aug. 2014 | 1 | Analysis of Glass Epoxy Reinforced Monolithic Leaf Spring Mohammed Mathenulla Shariff 1 , N. Sreenivasa Babu 2 , Dr. Jaithirtha Rao 3 #Engineering Department, Shinas College of Technology, Sultanate of Oman #3 IDST consultant, RCI, DRDO, Hyderabad, India I. Introduction The newest innovation in leaf-spring technology is the composite design, or what some would call a fiberglass leaf, although there are other materials involved in the construction of these products. Composite leaf springs are a new concept. Fig: 1 A laminated semi- elliptic leaf spring. The primary advantages of using a composite leaf spring are a 60-70 percent weight savings over steel springs and the tendency of the composite spring to maintain its shape, it doesn't sag. The composite leaf springs, just like the steel, come in various rates from 35 to 250 pounds. They can be used as a "single" leaf in low rates or as a "stack" leaf, still a mono-design but thicker (like a stacked steel spring). Even a small amount in weight reduction of the vehicle, may have a wider economic impact. Composite materials are proved as suitable substitutes for steel in connection with weight reduction of the vehicle. Hence, the composite materials have been selected for leaf spring design. II. Problem Description & Formulation A semi-elliptical leaf spring is chosen for analysis Using FEA by considering a simple supported beam with a concentrated load at the center. Composite beam material Fiber is Glass (Reinforcement Phase) and Matrix is Epoxy. Consider laminate of ten layers each of 2.9528 mm thick. Then thickness of the laminate is 29.9528 mm. Initially consider ten laminas of Zero degree orientations for ease of manufacturing for hand layup process. A Flow Chart for design Calculation is formulated as follows. Abstract: The automobile industry has been showing an interest in the replacement of steel spring with fiberglass composite leaf spring because of its high strength to weight ratio. Therefore the aim of this paper is to design and analyze composite mono leaf spring of constant width and thickness having the same bending stiffness of semi-elliptical laminated leaf spring. Stress analysis was done by using analytical method and results obtained by analytical methods are compared with ansys. The results obtained by analytical methods showed good agreement with ansys results. A Tsai-Hill failure criterion was used to check whether stresses are within reasonable levels for each ply. The stresses induced in the composite leaf springs were found to be 33.79% less compared to steel leaf spring. When steel leaf spring is replaced by composite leaf spring a weight reduction of 77.29% is obtained , 2.23 times higher natural frequency, 1.371 times more strain energy storage capacity, 33.79 % lesser stress and lesser value of spring rate is obtained in the composite leaf spring compared to steel leaf spring. Keywords: Monolithic, Stress Analysis, Natural Frequency, Strain Energy, Glass Epoxy.