scholarly journals Research on Vibration Reduction Method of Nonpneumatic Tire Spoke Based on the Mechanical Properties of Domestic cat’s Paw Pads

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Haichao Zhou ◽  
Huiyun Li ◽  
Ye Mei ◽  
Guolin Wang ◽  
Congzhen Liu ◽  
...  

Although there is no risk of puncture, the vibration problem caused by discontinuous structures limits nonpneumatic tire development (NPT). The vibration reduction of nonpneumatic tires is a solvable urgent problem. This current study analyzed the dynamic grounding characteristics and the vibration reduction mechanism of the cat’s paw pads and then applied the mechanical properties to the bionic design of nonpneumatic tire spokes to solve the vibration problem. Domestic cats’ paw pads’ dynamic grounding characteristics were determined using the pressure-sensitive walkway, high-speed camera, and VIC-2D. The results indicated that the mechanical characteristics of swing deformation of paw pads during the grounding process attenuated the grounding stress and buffered the energy storage to achieve the vibration reduction effect. According to the similarity transformation, a finite element model of NPT that could accurately reconstruct the structure and realistically reflect the load deformation was employed. The structure design of asymmetric arcs on the spokes’ side edges was proposed, and it can effectively reduce the radial excitation force of NPT. The three parameters, the asymmetric arc, the thickness, and the curvature of spokes, were used as design variables to maximize the vibration reduction. The orthogonal experimental, the Kriging approximate model, and the genetic algorithm were carefully selected for optimal solutions. Compared with the original tire, the results showed that peak amplitude 1, peak amplitude 2, and the root square of the optimized tire’s amplitudes were reduced by 76.07%, 52.88%, and 51.65%, respectively. These research results offer great potential guidance in the design of low-vibration NPT.

2013 ◽  
Vol 579-580 ◽  
pp. 568-572
Author(s):  
Da Guo Ma ◽  
Xin Bo Jiang

The structure and composition of the air-cooled high speed motorized spindle for wood-working machine and some features relative to the metal cutting motorized spindle are introduced briefly. Then the main heat sources and heat dissipation mechanism of the air-cooled motorized spindle are thoroughly analyzed, finite element model of the air-cooled motorized spindle is built, the motorized spindles temperature distribution under thermal steady state and the influence of speed are analyzed. The results show that air cooling relative to the water or oil cooling has many advantages and reasonable heat dissipation structure design of air-cooled motorized spindle could meet the requirements of the high-speed motorized spindle for wood-working machine.


2014 ◽  
Vol 915-916 ◽  
pp. 987-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Fei Bao ◽  
Wei Dong Miao ◽  
Rong Xie ◽  
Yan Jun Shi

Engineering analysis and simulation are time-consuming, and often trapped to computational burden, such as analyzing forging press. We herein employ surrogate modeling to reduce such computation cost while keeping high precision. This paper use a BP neural networks to building the surrogate model (BPNN-SM for short), and predicting the analysis results of mechanical structures with this model. The predicting process include confining design variables, sampling, building finite element model with business software ANSYS, constructing surrogate model to replace the original model and finally predicting data with the new model. In such process, we build a back-propagation neural network, and train it with sampling data from ANSYS results. We tested our methods with a mechanical structure design of hydraulic forging press. The experimental results verified the surrogate modeling.


Author(s):  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Huilong Ren ◽  
Guoqing Feng ◽  
Yifu Liu ◽  
Zhaonian Wu

In recent years, water jet propulsion unit has been widely used in the field of high speed ship. Compared with traditional propeller, water jet propulsion unit has excellent maneuverability with high speed, and lateral force generated by water jet propulsion unit can reduce the radius of turning. High speed ship with water jet propulsion has higher efficiency, lower noise. However, water jet propulsion unit needs to be opened in stern transom plate, and it causes the water jet force when ship is operating, all of these will affect the local strength of stern. It remains to be researched whether the vibration generated by water jet excitation force has a significant influence. These problems are designers worried about. To solve these problems, this paper builds the finite element model of stern contains water jet propulsion unit, considering hull deck load, broadside load, bottom load, bulkhead load and water jet load, checking the local strength of stern. Analysis of vibration problem, considering the influence of added mass of entrained water, dividing stern into deck, bottom, water jet propulsion unit, stern transom plate and other local structure, calculating natural frequencies of plate, panel and grillage of each local structures. Comparing the results with shaft frequency and blade frequency, checking the reserve frequency, judging whether water jet propulsion unit on vibration problem meets standards, providing reference for the following hull design.


2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 246-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Rutherford ◽  
Shashank Bezgam ◽  
Amarnath Proddaturi ◽  
Lonny Thompson ◽  
John C. Ziegert ◽  
...  

Abstract During high speed rolling of a nonpneumatic wheel, vibration may be produced by the interaction of collapsible spokes with a shear deformable ring as they enter the contact region, buckle, and then snap back into a state of tension. In the present work, a systematic study of the effects of six key geometric design parameters is presented using Orthogonal Arrays. Orthogonal Arrays are part of a design process method developed by Taguchi which provides an efficient way to determine optimal combinations of design variables. In the present work, a two-dimensional planar finite element model with geometric nonlinearity and explicit time-stepping is used to simulate rolling of the nonpneumatic wheel. Vibration characteristics are measured from the FFT frequency spectrum of the time signals of perpendicular distance of marker nodes from the virtual plane of the spoke, and ground reaction forces. Both maximum peak amplitudes and RMS measures are considered. Two complementary Orthogonal Arrays are evaluated. The first is the L8 orthogonal array which considers the six geometric design variables evaluated at lower and higher limiting values for a total of eight experiments defined by statistically efficient variable combinations. Based on the results from the L8 orthogonal array, a second L9 orthogonal array experiment evaluates the nonlinear effects in the four parameters of greatest interest, (a) spoke length, (b) spoke curvature, (c) spoke thickness, and (d) shear beam thickness. The L9 array consists of nine experiments with efficient combinations of low, intermediate, and high value levels. Results from use of the Orthogonal Array experiments were used to find combinations of parameters which significantly reduce peak and RMS amplitudes, and suggest that spoke length has the greatest effect on vibration amplitudes.


2011 ◽  
Vol 199-200 ◽  
pp. 1065-1068
Author(s):  
Li Qiang Zeng ◽  
Zhi Peng Ma ◽  
Xing Yu Zhao ◽  
Da Wei Zhang

To design a milling machine with high static stiffness and machining precision, the three-dimensional (3-D) model and the finite element model of a large-scale high-speed gantry type CNC milling machine have been established according to the demand of engineering. The main components of the milling machine have been studied separately by static and dynamic analysis to make an optimal structure design. The results indicate that the structure of the milling machine has great static stiffness, little structural deformation, and good dynamic characteristics. The method used in this paper provides helpful theoretical guidance to the dynamic design of milling machine.


2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Čech ◽  
Petr Haušild ◽  
Miroslav Karlík ◽  
Veronika Kadlecová ◽  
Jiří Čapek ◽  
...  

FeAl20Si20 (wt.%) powders prepared by mechanical alloying from different initial feedstock materials (Fe, Al, Si, FeAl27) were investigated in this study. Scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and nanoindentation techniques were used to analyze microstructure, phase composition and mechanical properties (hardness and Young’s modulus). Finite element model was developed to account for the decrease in measured values of mechanical properties of powder particles with increasing penetration depth caused by surrounding soft resin used for embedding powder particles. Progressive homogenization of the powders’ microstructure and an increase of hardness and Young’s modulus with milling time were observed and the time for complete homogenization was estimated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Special Issue on First SACEE'19) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
Giorgia Di Gangi ◽  
Giorgio Monti ◽  
Giuseppe Quaranta ◽  
Marco Vailati ◽  
Cristoforo Demartino

The seismic performance of timber light-frame shear walls is investigated in this paper with a focus on energy dissipation and ductility ensured by sheathing-to-framing connections. An original parametric finite element model has been developed in order to perform sensitivity analyses. The model considers the design variables affecting the racking load-carrying capacity of the wall. These variables include aspect ratio (height-to-width ratio), fastener spacing, number of vertical studs and framing elements cross-section size. A failure criterion has been defined based on the observation of both the global behaviour of the wall and local behaviour of fasteners in order to identify the ultimate displacement of the wall. The equivalent viscous damping has been numerically assessed by estimating the damping factor which is in use in the capacity spectrum method. Finally, an in-depth analysis of the results obtained from the sensitivity analyses led to the development of a simplified analytical procedure which is able to predict the capacity curve of a timber light-frame shear wall.


2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serkan Büyükdoğan ◽  
Süleyman Gündüz ◽  
Mustafa Türkmen

Purpose – The paper aims to provide new observations about static strain ageing in aluminium (Al) alloys which are widely used in structural applications. Design/methodology/approach – The present work aims to provide theoretical and practical information to industries or researchers who may be interested in the effect of static strain ageing on mechanical properties of Al alloys. The data are sorted into the following sections: introduction, materials and experimental procedure, results and discussion and conclusions. Findings – Tensile strength, proof strength (0.2 per cent) and percentage elongation measurement were used to investigate the effect of strain ageing on the mechanical properties. Wear tests were performed by sliding the pin specimens, which were prepared from as-received, solution heat-treated, deformed and undeformed specimens after ageing, on high-speed tool steel (64 HRC). It is concluded that the variations in ageing time improved the strength and wear resistance of the 6063 Al alloy; however, a plastically deformed solution-treated alloy has higher strength and wear resistance than undeformed specimens for different ageing times at 180°C. Practical implications – A very useful source of information for industries using or planning to produce Al alloys. Originality/value – This paper fulfils an identified resource need and offers practical help to the industries.


Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1134
Author(s):  
Bo Seok Song ◽  
Jun Young Lee ◽  
Sun Hwa Jang ◽  
Wan-Gyu Hahm

High-speed melt spinning of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer (TLCP) resin composed of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA) and 2-hydroxy-6-napthoic acid (HNA) monomers in a molar ratio of 73/27 was conducted to investigate the characteristic structure development of the fibers under industrial spinning conditions, and the obtained as-spun TLCP fibers were analyzed in detail. The tensile strength and modulus of the fibers increased with shear rate in nozzle hole, draft in spin-line and spinning temperature and exhibited the high values of approximately 1.1 and 63 GPa, respectively, comparable to those of industrial as-spun TLCP fibers, at a shear rate of 70,000 s−1 and a draft of 25. X-ray diffraction demonstrated that the mechanical properties of the fibers increased with the crystalline orientation factor (fc) and the fractions of highly oriented crystalline and non-crystalline anisotropic phases. The results of structure analysis indicated that a characteristic skin–core structure developed at high drafts (i.e., spinning velocity) and low spinning temperatures, which contributed to weakening the mechanical properties of the TLCP fibers. It is supposed that this heterogeneous structure in the cross-section of the fibers was induced by differences in the cooling rates of the skin and core of the fiber in the spin-line.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingzhong Mao ◽  
Yusheng Zhang ◽  
Yazhou Guo ◽  
Yonghao Zhao

AbstractThe rapid development of high-speed rail requires copper contact wire that simultaneously possesses excellent electrical conductivity, thermal stability and mechanical properties. Unfortunately, these are generally mutually exclusive properties. Here, we demonstrate directional optimization of microstructure and overcome the strength-conductivity tradeoff in copper wire. We use rotary swaging to prepare copper wire with a fiber texture and long ultrafine grains aligned along the wire axis. The wire exhibits a high electrical conductivity of 97% of the international annealed copper standard (IACS), a yield strength of over 450 MPa, high impact and wear resistances, and thermal stability of up to 573 K for 1 h. Subsequent annealing enhances the conductivity to 103 % of IACS while maintaining a yield strength above 380 MPa. The long grains provide a channel for free electrons, while the low-angle grain boundaries between ultrafine grains block dislocation slip and crack propagation, and lower the ability for boundary migration.


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