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In vehicles drive shaft is one of the important components. A drive shaft is a rotating shaft that transmits power from theengine to the differential gear of a rear wheel drive vehicles. Generally an alloy steel drive shaft is used in automotive,nowadaysthissteeldriveshaftisreplacedbycompositematerialdriveshaft.The advanced composite materials such as graphite,carbon, Kevlar and glass with suitable resins are widely used because of their high specific strength and high specificmodule. Due to replacement of composite material can results in considerable amount of weight reduction as compared tosteel shaft. In this study composite shaft and genetic algorithm is successfully applied to minimize the weight of shaft which issubjected to the constraints such as torque transmission and fundamental natural frequency. Our main aim is to study itsdesign procedure along with finite element analysis. Many researchers have been investigated about driveshaft.Thisworkdealswiththereplacementofconventionalsteeldriveshaftwithhighstrengthcarbon/epoxy composite drive shaft.The design parameters were optimized with the help of genetic algorithm (G.A) with the objective of minimizing the weight ofcomposite drive shaft. The result of GAareused for modeling of Carbon/epoxy composite drives haft and steel drive shaftusing CAD soft ware to perform static, buckling and modal analysis of both drive shaft using ANSYS software.

Akshay Shrishrimal, Pranav Patil, Ritesh Mane, “Design and Analysis of Carbon Fibre Drive Shaft Using Classical Theories”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 286-296, January 2018.