Work place: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State, Nigeria
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Research Interests: Engineering
Biography
Matthew Sunday ABOLARIN is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. His area of research interest is in Industrial and Production/Solid Mechanics Engineering. He holds a PhD degree in Industrial and Production/Solid Mechanics Engineering.
By Ikechukwu Celestine UGWUOKE Matthew Sunday ABOLARIN
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2019.03.02, Pub. Date: 8 May 2019
This research work focuses on the design and development of Class 2B-lpl compliant constant-force compression slider mechanism. It also expresses the desire to simplify the behavioral model for easy usage. Results obtained indicated an average non-dimesionalized parameter value of 1.2573, 1.2991, 1.3483, and 1.4081 for a 10, 20, 30, and 40% displacement respectively. The result also shows that the average force generated by the mechanism for a 10, 20, 30, and 40% displacement were 901.23N, 316.56N, 171.17N, and 110.44N respectively using the maximum flexible segments parameter values for the different percentages of mechanism slider displacement. This indicates clearly that using the non-dimensionalized parameter, the average force generated by this class of mechanism can easily be determined which greatly simplifies its usage.
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