Questions tagged [coupling]
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How to connect a motor shaft to a plate
I'm trying to drive an aluminium plate using a motor via a 20mm-wide 2mm-thick stainless steel tube. The tube is driven by a 6mm motor shaft via a pulley and the torque will be around 5Nm at most. Is it a good idea to attach the plate to the tube…
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Coupling of load cell with a plunger
We are using a load cell as shown below, the data sheet for which can be found on this link.
The load cell needs to coupled with a plunger as shown below.
The plunger is supposed to measure the axial force acting on it. Initially, we had just…
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Evaluating bonding integrity of piezoceramic transducer
Currently I am working on a Structural Health Monitoring system utilizing piezoceramic transducers. The proof of concepts have worked very well. But we are in the process of working small scale manufacturing. We have observed inconsistency in the…
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Motor shaft mounting with clamps and bushings
If I'm in the wrong section of stack exchange, please help me go to the right place.
I am trying to find out if this combination of motor shaft and clamps will work out.
I found these…
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Sealing of non-circular cross sections
I have to mate two sections of something that could be reasonably approximated by a tube, though the material is stainless steel, and the cross-section is very non-circular, so I cannot use an o-ring. The walls are thin and the exterior must remain…
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What joint can I use for two thin parallel shafts to transmit both rotational and and linear power (in the axis of the shaft)?
I am here regarding a personal project but I am not a mech engineer. The shaft is a watch stem that is displaced from the crown stem. The two shafts are positioned like in the photo below but are 0.9mm in diameter and about 2mm to 4mm apart (it can…
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What does "coupling effects" mean in the context of optical systems?
What does it mean to say that there are "coupling effects" between some elements of an optical system? I've searched through the literature, but I cannot find a general explanation of what this means – every mention of it assumes that the reader…
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What is the purpose of the steel plate in this coupler?
I've found a shaft coupler that has a steel plate in between, but it's not clear what its function is:
If it is to add strength to the coupler, isn't the coupler as strong as the weakest link, i.e. the aluminium ends? Does anyone know what the…
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Axis connection types
Complete hobbyist here. I have two questions I have a problem figuring out.
I have hard time finding information about axis and types of connections they have. For example take this worm gear reducer:
It has axis connection with small extrusion on…
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I need help identifying a special kind of coupling
I found this switchable coupling in Rollof/Matek machine elements, i have never seen this kind of coupling before.
According to the dutch edition its name is:
Tweevlakskoppeling
Which literally means Two-surface coupling
After some research on…
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Which tool to measure shaft alignment for small diameter shafts (d=10mm)?
I have seen many tools and methods to check shaft alignment, but they are mostly used for big shaft. I wonder if there are small tools for small diameter shaft with limited space to install?
Can you suggest some tools, brands and sources that I can…
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Pressing a fluid onto a structure in ANSYS Fluent
I have a spefific problem which I tried to solve with Ansys Fluent and Transient Structural but I did not manage to get a solution so far. I am happy for any kind of help.
I want to press a block of viscous fluid onto a surface with some structural…
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What is the physical and mathematical meaning of nonsymmetric mass, damping and stiffness matrix of a linear fluid-solid interaction modeling problem?
Suppose the problem of the subsonic flow over a simply-supported rectangular plate as bellow.
According to the assumptions of incompressible, inviscid and irrotational flow, and using perturbation potential function, the applied fluid pressure on…
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Why the model with rebar layer shows one sided plastic strain in Abaqus?
Using the damaged plasticity model, I modeled a concrete coupled shear wall in Abaqus, once with discrete rebar and once with rebar layers for the slab. I used the general static solver to run the push-over analysis. Although deformation happens on…
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Effect of multiple shear pins used in combination in a coupling
Does using multiple shear pins under a limiting torque case reduce the minimum required shear pin diameter for the coupling or is the complete load distributed over the shear pins regardless of the number of shear pins that are used?
