Materialistic suitability analysis for cutting dynamometers

Abstract

Suitability of material comes forth in deciding for the right material together with the shape and size of the dynamometer to support the cutting load. Role of material strength with the size of dynamometer came into decision when fixing the maximum cutting load on the assembly parts in the same way as role of shape of deforming element came into decision when setting up the maximum permissible deformation taken up by the dynamometer. Present work aims at verifying the selection of the size, shape and material under a target cutting load that are used by various researchers in designing the cutting dynamometers successfully. Research has been done to devise cutting dynamometers with varying shapes and sizes of deforming elements made with different materials. SOLIDWORKS is employed to model the material deformation and study is conducted to compare the values obtained for the maximum deflection, strain and total von-Mises stress developed at the most heavily stressed point through SOLIDWORKS with the corresponding theoretical or experimental values obtained by the researchers.