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Connecting rod is one of the most important part in automotive engine. Connecting rod is the link between piston and crank shaft. Which it converts reciprocating motion of piston into rotary motion of crank shaft.In internal engines connecting rod is mainly made of steel and aluminum alloys (for light weight and absorb high impact loads) or titanium (for higher performance engines and for higher cost).As a connecting rod is rigid, it may transmit either a push or a pull and so the rod may rotate the crank through both halves of a revolution, i.e. Piston pushing and piston pulling. Earlier mechanisms, such as chains, could only pull. In a few two-stroke engines, the connecting rod is only required to push. In which it undergoes structural deformations. Thus in this project we are modeling a connecting rod in solid works 2016 design software and doing static structural analysis in ansys work bench 14.5 software. Thus the part which is modeled is converted into igs file to import in ansys work bench and static structural analysis is carried out at 3MPa of pressure load by applying various materials including composite materials, materials used in this project are such as aluminum alloy (which is already existing), 42crmo4, aluminum based composite material reinforced with Boron carbide (Al6061+B4C). By applying these boundary conditions on connecting rod the unknown variables such as stress, deformation, strain, and maximum shear stress are found using the FEA based software (ANSYS). In this we are using the dynamic analysis and the static analysis is use to calculate the deflection of spindle-bearing system. This analysis is to find out the deflections, stress induced And the frequencies of the mode shape for both steel material and 20MnCr5 material in machine tool spindle. This project is on the application of computer aided analysis using finite element method. The boundary conditions, loads, material properties are added according as per the design. The resultant of the deformation and stresses and the frequency of mode shapes obtained are reported and discussed.