TY - GEN
T1 - Case study on the system design of a fatigue leaf spring testing machine
AU - Gudukeya, Loice Keresia
AU - Mushiri, Tawanda
AU - Mbohwa, Charles
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/12/14
Y1 - 2016/12/14
N2 - In this research a fatigue endurance testing system is designed. It is used in testing fatigue endurance of a leaf spring as the last stage in the production line. The system incorporates a fluid system which utilizes gravity to increase head, and uses less electrical energy, than the current system. Current system requires 93.5kW and the new design aims at a system requiring 62kW and testing 4 specimen at a time compared to 1 specimen at a time on the current system. The new design will also be automated hence it will have greater accuracy in digital control.
AB - In this research a fatigue endurance testing system is designed. It is used in testing fatigue endurance of a leaf spring as the last stage in the production line. The system incorporates a fluid system which utilizes gravity to increase head, and uses less electrical energy, than the current system. Current system requires 93.5kW and the new design aims at a system requiring 62kW and testing 4 specimen at a time compared to 1 specimen at a time on the current system. The new design will also be automated hence it will have greater accuracy in digital control.
KW - Fatigue test
KW - Leaf spring
KW - Spring
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018324333&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3036932.3036961
DO - 10.1145/3036932.3036961
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85018324333
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 11
EP - 14
BT - Proceedings of 2016 5th International Conference on Mechatronics and Control Engineering, ICMCE 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 5th International Conference on Mechatronics and Control Engineering, ICMCE 2016
Y2 - 14 December 2016 through 17 December 2016
ER -