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: Connecting Rods are used practically generally used in all varieties of automobile engines acting as an intermediate link between the piston and the crankshaft of an engine of an automobile. It is responsible for transmission the up and down motion of the piston to the crankshaft of the engine, by converting the reciprocating motion of the piston to the rotary motion of crankshaft. While the one end, small end the connecting rod is connecting to the piston of the engine by the means of piston pin, the other end, the bigger end being connected to the crankshaft with lower end big end bearing by generally two bolts. Generally connecting rods are being made up of stainless steel and aluminum alloy through the forging process, as this method provides high productivity and that too with a lower production cost. Forces generated on the connected rod are generally by weight and combustion of fuel inside cylinder acts upon piston and then on the connecting rod, which results in both the bending and axial stresses. The lateral bending stress are commonly called as whipping stress and this whipping stress forms the base of evaluation of performance of various materials that can be used for manufacturing of connecting rod. The conventional material used is steel which is designed using CAD tool which is CATIA V5 and subsequently analyzed for bending stress acting on it using ANSYS workbench 16.1 and this procedure is followed for different material which are cast iron grade 25 , carbon40 .