A REVIEW ON CARBON FIBER SPROCKET DESIGN ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION

Roller chain or bush roller chain is the type of chain drive most commonly used for transmission of mechanical power on many kinds of domestic, industrial and agricultural machinery, conveyor bicycles, cars and tube drawing machines, motorcycles, and printing presses. It consists of a series of short cylindrical rollers held together by side links. It is driven by a toothed wheel called a sprocket. We see there are some common problems that might occur when using a sprocket chain like broken bush, pins, sprockets etc. In our project, we are going to model a sprocket chain in 3D modeling software (CatiaV5), meshing will be done in Hypermesh and for post processing we will use Ansys. A sprocket chain will be manufactured with carbon fiber material. Testing will be carried to validate the results between numerical and analytical model.