Review and Design of FDM printed Integrated Gear coupling overload protection clutch

Mechanical Engineering

Gear couplings are used in the industry to transmit power between two inline shafts in machinery. The gears couplings are normally standard elements with two gear elements and a central sleeve. Although rarely occurring overloads must be considered during the design process of a power train. These overloads can be evoked by malfunctions in the transmission and installation control, by obstructions in the work flow, by misoperation etc. These overloads may create pre-damages which lead to full failure of the assembly or its components. Such affecting loads are avoidable by means of overload clutches. Thus reliable overload clutches are of strongly increasing interest for years. Thus the combination of the gear coupling and the overload protection clutch is a desirable one and also essential. It is found that no such integral devices are available in the market and also that if these two elements if installed separated will increase the space required and also cost will increase. The paper aims at the design development analysis of the FDM printed integrated gear coupling with overload protection clutch . The components have being designed using Unigraphix Nx and the analysis of the components is done using ANSYS work bench.

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