Comprehensive Design and FEM Analysis of Piston and Connecting Rod using ANSYS for Two Wheeler Engines

Connecting rod and piston are crucial components of IC engines. Connecting rod is the connecting member which is fitted to piston with small end and big end to the crankshaft. It is a vital member to transmit the activities of the piston to crank journal, thus the conversion of the reciprocating motion of the piston to rotary motion of the crankshaft. Piston is a reciprocating component of IC engine. Its sole function is to transfer combust gas force in the cylinder via connecting rod. Aluminium alloy is used as material for both piston and connecting rod. In this work, we took an Engine Specification of two wheelers as an input, we designed a Piston and Connecting rod by finding safe dimensions, and modelled using CREO Parametric Software and we did structural analysis, Thermal analysis and fatigue analysis of the connecting rod and Piston for 100CC engine of a Bike. In FEA analysis, it was found the Von misses stress; total displacement, Fatigue life, and Factor of safety are using ANSYS software are very much acceptable and reliable too.