Design of a Mechanically Driven, Hydraulic Piston Actuated Tilting Ore Rail Car
Justin Dodson1, Bryan Mercier1, Sean Motta1
1 USF
College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Introduction
Approach
Results
Precision and design of each linkage
in a mechanism is critically important in defining its behavior. The focus of this poster is the design of a Side Tipping Ore Car mechanically driven, hydraulic piston actuated tilting ore rail car. This project uses concepts found in Kinematics/Dynamics of Mechanisms of Machines.
Design
With a 20 CW rotation of the railcar we achieved the
desired behavior of the mechanism to within 0.13 and 0.73 of the design requirements for the top and bottom doors respectively. It is believed that our decision to carry only two significant digits past the decimal point to SolidWorks resulted in this error.
Design Requirements The latch must be released as link B rotates upward.
To determine the necessary dimensions of the linkages
needed to complete the design objective for this project, Solid Edge 2D drafting software was utilized. Started with standard US rail gauge (4 8.5) Used US railway tunnel dimensions for the maximum width that would ensure the ability to transit railway tunnels to form a basic outline of standard position of the mechanism (closed).
The top door must rotate counter clockwise to an
angle of 45 (with respect to the bed).
Added constraints: 20 slant w.r.t the horizontal of the
railcar body and 45 and 90 constraints with respect to the tilting portion of the railcar for the doors to draw the second position of the mechanism (open) in dashed lines.
The side door must rotate clockwise to an angle
of 90 (with respect to the bed).
Now have two points in space for each connection
that the linkages must connect to produce the desired behavior.
An actuator was used to exert a force from the
car base onto the tilting bed.
Input arbitrary lines to represent all of the links that
connected the two phases, ignoring the dimensions.
Solid Edge 2D Model of Mechanism with Constraints
Began with linkage A, used relational constraints to
force the linkages of each phase to be the same. Repeated this cycle with linkages B & C Leaving the constraints for the extensions connecting linkages to the rigid body blank allowed Solid Edge to move and resize these pieces dynamically as constraints were added to maintain the integrity of the system.
Solid Edge 2D Model of Mechanism without Constraints
With all dimensions we were able to create a three
dimensional model of the system using SolidWorks to verify that the system performed as expected.