Design And Analysis Of Composite Propeller Blade For Aircraft

Abstract: In this project, the work basically deals with the modelling and analysis of the propeller blade of an aircraft for its strength. A propeller blade is complex 3D model geometry. This requires high end modelling CAD software is used for generating the blade model in SOLID WORKS. This paper consists of brief details about Fiber Reinforced Plastic materials and the advantages of using composite propeller over the conventional metallic propeller blade. This project focus on the metal and composite strength analysis of the propeller blade carried out by using the finite element analysis. By using ANSYS software static and fluent analysis were carried out for isotropic material , In this work two different types of propellers i.e., Aluminium, E-glass, and carbon fibre, were studied using FEA techniques.

Keywords: Lightweight Composite Design,3D CADModeling, Finite Element Analysis (FEA),Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),Stress Distribution Analysis, Solid works ,Catia V5,Aerodynamic Performance, ANSYS.