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I understand that commercially available products are being manufactured in the USA with outstanding strength to weight ratios (if you'd call it that). Where would a humble Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering start to learn of such advances when he has only become accustomed to Grade 9 in...
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We are currently searching a fastener, that is readily available in the USA in quantities of 50 maximum say, with a hex head and nut that has a 12.9 or equivalent tensile strength. I come from an Australian engineering background and am unfamiliar with the USA market. I am only familiar with...
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I need as much good advice on Leaf Chain Design as can be mustered. Competitors in my industry are utilising leaf chain as a means of transferring a cylinders push/pull into a lift with a doubling of speed and distance (everybody has made use of rope conventionally for exactly the same...
My situation is:
I am using solidworks to generate designs for manufacture and exporting these designs into Ansys Workbench 12. The designs are weldments made up of common structural grade steel profile and plate. I can successfully extract the midplanes of all profiles in Design Modeller and I...
Can anybody assist me or point me in the direction of some good literature regarding the selection of the hardness that the tooth faces of a sprocket used for roller chain should be?
The Sprockets we are designing are used with ANSI 1/2" #40 Chain if that helps narrow the scope. Id like to...
