Being a post graduate (Masters in Mechanical Engineering) from Dublin Institute of Technology with 2.1 Honours, my accomplishments include 3D Product Design & Simulations using the latest technologies in the market. Also, while working as a Project Engineer and then as a Sr. Business Development Engineer at Furnace Fabrica India Ltd., I developed new business relationships with focus on attaining the pre-determined objectives of the organisation.
The temperature and stress distributions of a ceramic coated spark ignition piston have been presented in this document. Comparisons were also carried out with results from an uncoated piston. Different ceramic coating thickness and width were designed in Solidworks and their effects on temperature and stress distributions were analyzed using 3D simulation software called ANSYS. It was found that the ceramic coating surface temperature increases as the coating thickness increases. Around 31% increase in surface temperature was observed for a coating thickness of 0.4 mm, in comparison to uncoated piston. The normal stress was found to decrease with increase in coating thickness. The normal stress for bond coat surface follows a similar behavior. The recommended coating thickness was found to be around 0.8mm.
