Question

A commercial food waste grinder in which the final shaft rotates at between 40 and 44 rpm is to be designed. The input is from an electric motor running at 850 rpm and delivering 0.50 hp. Design a double-reduction spur gear train for the grinder.

In your gear train designs, provide calculations of the following:

a. The rotational speed of the gear

b. The velocity and the gear ratio for the gear pair

c. The pitch diameter of the pinion and the gear

d. The center distance between the shafts carrying the pinion and the gear

e. The pitch line speed for both the pinion and the gear

f. The torque on the pinion shaft and on the gear shaft

g. The tangential force acting on the teeth of each gear

h. The radial force acting on the teeth of each gear

i. The normal force acting on the teeth of each gear

j. The schematic diagram of the whole assembly design

Your design concept idea should be an assembly. It should be designed by using SolidWorks and should include at least one component structural analysis by SolidWorks Simulation software. Design a report with the following content. This project is simple in scope, has a rather defined market presence, is very adaptable to structural analysis without 2 extensive product variations. These projects fit the design / analyze / build concept we are trying to simulate.

Answer 1