Ikechukwu Celestine UGWUOKE; Matthew Sunday ABOLARIN

Design and Development of Class 2B-lpl Compliant Constant-Force Compression Slider Mechanism

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Ikechukwu Celestine UGWUOKE ¹ Matthew Sunday ABOLARIN ¹

1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State, Nigeria

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2019.03.02

Received: 9 Nov. 2018 / Revised: 9 Jan. 2019 / Accepted: 15 Feb. 2019 / Published: 8 May 2019

Index Terms

Class 2B-lpl, compliant, constant-force, compression, slider, mechanism

Abstract

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.

Cite This Paper

Ikechukwu Celestine UGWUOKE, Matthew Sunday ABOLARIN,"Design and Development of Class 2B-lpl Compliant Constant-Force Compression Slider Mechanism", International Journal of Engineering and Manufacturing(IJEM), Vol.9, No.3, pp.19-28, 2019. DOI: 10.5815/ijem.2019.03.02

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