Design and Analysis of Pattern for Connecting Rod in Marine Engine

Abstract

The main aim of our project is to improve the efficiency of the engine oil by dissipating the heat acquired in the connecting rod with new design. The marine engines are such a huge engines which need the lube oil supply with separate pump for it. There is more heat formation in engines which we have to control using these flows. We are going to deploy the new pattern design on the connecting rod surface with which we could able to allow the surface heat to dissipate faster than the existing system. The design consists of a small projection of flat plate with about 1mm to 2 mm thick and 1mm to 2 mm width with the fin type arrangements on the surface of the connecting rods. We are going to design the connecting rod a 3D modelling software (Solid works, CATIA, CREO, Etc.) and feed it into the ANSYS software for analysis work. We are going to analyse the connecting rod both structurally and thermally. By applying structural load and thermal load we are going to check its stress and deformation factors. By comparing it to the existing connecting rod we can decide the effectiveness of our designed connecting rod.