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The crankshaft is one of the essential components of an internal combustion engine, in which the reciprocating motion of the piston is converted into rotary motion through the connecting rod. The current work consists of two types of analysis. In the first part of the study, strength analysis on a single cylinder four stroke diesel engine crankshafts. The best combination of parameters like Von Mises stress, deformation and weight reduction for crankshaft is carried out. In the second part of the study, two materials namely structural steel and aluminium alloy are selected for analysis and comparison of these two materials properties such as Von-Mises stress, strain and total deformation were determined and results were compared. Crankshaft needs to be checked carefully to ensure that the design is fully optimized for that optimization of the crankshaft is studied and changing the geometry and shape of the existing crankshaft. In the present work CAD model of the crankshaft has been designed in the AUTOCAD 2016 software and then finite element analysis (FEA) has been carried out by using ANSYS 15.0 workbench software. Static analysis of crankshaft is done to find the maximum stress and deformation point.