I am a mechanical engineer who seems to be a bit out of practice with my old statics and physics equations. The company I work for builds garage doors and we have an aluminum extruded strip that runs the length of the bottom of each garage door. This strip has a trough that allows us to attach...
Does anyone know of a decent small industrial size chip collection system that is available? I would prefer an off-the-shelf one that would most likely be cheaper than a customized one.
We drill, saw, and route into aluminum extrusions and currently let the chips fall to the ground to sweep...
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We are using aluminum extrusions for commercial garage door frames such as in a firehouse or service station garage. To fasten them together in the frame shape we have to drill holes through the horizontal ones and fasten through them...
Reposted from "Fabricated Metal Product Engineering Forum":
We are using aluminum extrusions for commercial garage door frames such as in a firehouse or service station garage. To fasten them together in the frame shape we have to drill holes through the horizontal ones and fasten through them...
We are using aluminum extrusions for commercial garage door frames such as in a firehouse or service station garage. To fasten them together in the frame shape we have to drill holes through the horizontal ones and fasten through them into the vertical ones.
We currently drill the horizontal...
I need to radius an aluminum extrusion between the ranges of a 20' and a 10' radius. I know this is large, but the shape I need to bend to that is a fairly large almost rectangular shape. The extrusion is 2" x 5-1/2" and it needs to be bent the hard way. If anyone can point me to a source to...
I am looking for an AC gearmotor with a set output speed of anywhere in the range of 30-60 rpm. I need to deliver somewhere between 150 to 200 ft-lbs (1800 to 2400 in-lbs) of torque at a set speed.
Our power service is 230V 3ph 60hz and price is an issue so I am most likely looking for 'off...
We have a roll forming machine that we are building a safety cage to fit over. The cage is designed as a lid hinged on a solid steel shaft mounted along side of our roll forming machine. The entire cage will rotate and lift up and away off to one side of the roll former. The center of gravity...
I need a VFD for 15 hp motor on 3/60/230 service. It needs a closed PID control loop option which is used primarily for HVAC applications I think.
We have a test fixture with a 15hp motor connected to a fan that we want to control. The fan will pressurize a chamber to a certain point and hold...
We are pressurizing one side of a garage door and need to measure deflection vs. pressure over a time constant. I have (1) pressure transducer and (8) deflection sensors all of which output 4-20mA signals. All I really want to do is record the deflection, pressure, and time all on one graph...
I am attempting to pressurize a chamber to pre-determined pressures for varying lengths of time. I am using a fan that can output 2500cfm at 14.5”SP. The fan is connected to a VFD. I am pressure testing against a garage door to simulate wind loads so I anticipate that there will be...
I am attempting to pressurize a chamber to pre-determined pressures for varying lengths of time. I am using a fan that can output 2500cfm at 14.5”SP. The fan is connected to a VFD. I am pressure testing against a garage door to simulate wind loads so I anticipate that there will be...
Can anyone suggest a type of sensor that would be work for an application where we are testing garage doors between pressurized chambers? The delta in pressure on both sides will cause deflection (simulating wind loads) and we must measure that deflection. We want to take readings from at...
I am building a pressure chamber that is 10'deep, 13'tall, and 22'wide. It is to be equally divided in depth so both sides are essentially 5'x13'x22' in volume. This will be used to test variable pressure loads on garage doors to be placed in between the two halves of the chamber. The...
I am currently evaluating Cosmos for Solidworks. I am having trouble with surface loading. For instance I want to load only the right half of an object's top surface, not the entire top surface. If anyone can suggest a book, guide, or tutorial of some sort it would be greatly appreciated...
I currently am evaluating a copy of Cosmos and am trying to learn to use it so we can implement it at my work. It seems fairly straight forward, but I am having trouble with surface force loading. I cannot figure out how to load just a portion of an objects surface. For instance I want to...
I am well experienced with AutoCAD and have some experience now with SolidWorks but I have no FEA analysis program experience. I want to begin analysis of simple single and multilple part structures. I am interested in gravity, point loads, and distributed loading (wind load) effects...
I am looking to analyze the strength of simple static objects (garage doors) against wind force. The only FEA experience I have is with a super old version of Algor back in school. I have excellent 3D modeling skills with AutoCAD (ya I know) and a little SolidWorks experience. I am looking...
