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The search for innovative solutions has been object of study all over the world. Among its premises are: cost reduction, application of new materials lighter and stronger, ease of production and assembly. The integration of finite element analysis (FEA), experimental tests and Materials Engineering allows the working group to develop an efficient and innovative product. The current paper explores the development of a clutch pedal joint pin, where the design boundary conditions required innovative solutions, like the adoption of a new material and new geometry. These conditions were evaluated by a finite elements model through a non-linear approach, which had its results correlated with experimental tests.

The development of computational procedures has allowed increasing the range of virtual analysis of various engineering problems. The design of industrial products must meet requirements of durability, strength, reliability, security, and criteria of low cost and weight. These requirements are among the many reasons that enable technological advances; and such advances are needed to make possible to increasingly use software's capacity of simulating real operating conditions of components. This work has as main objective to achieve fatigue analysis of a connecting rod of an automotive internal combustion engine by using software based on finite element method. For this were used curves of loads and boundary conditions, obtained from experimental analysis of the component, so it may be possible a correlation between experimental and computational results.