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Leaf spring is a vital suspension component, such that the failure of leaf spring could cause fatal accidents. Due to frequent failures of leaf springs on vehicles, a method is developed to perform the numerical analysis using explicit solver which provides insightful analysis of leaf springs to prevent the occurrence of failure during engineering design. Since fatigue life assessment of leaf springs is a significant aspect during the design stage and due to the limitation of non-compatibility of output file of explicit solver for fatigue analysis, various studies are conducted and implicit solver is considered to perform FEA simulation of leaf spring. The present study delineates comparison of non-linear analysis of semi-elliptical leaf spring using explicit solver with that of implicit solver. Analysis using implicit solver gives us an advantage to export the model in fatigue life estimation solver which is not possible using explicit solver.