Thank you for explaining about the chamfers - understood now. It takes more into account real materials that would squish a little and dig into each other instead of this perfectly rigid parts in theory.
This link you provided is gold! Really helped me understand this.
I don't understand why...
Thank you for the images TheTick. I understand that adding the chamfers would help with positioning and inserting the button into the hole/slot. But once the button is inserted, in terms of jamming - won't the added chamfer effectively just affect the geometry as if the button was shorter (to...
Thanks 3Dave,
So does jamming occur because the contact friction force becomes too high?
If this was a frictionless system, would jamming still occur?
I'm getting confused on the reaction forces - It seems like the reaction forces R1 and R2 tend to push the button back horizontal CW while the...
Thank you TubboatEng, your comments are aligned with my thinking. Can you clarify how the bearings would be incorporated to help fix this?
And I'm also struggling with the free body diagram that explains why a more supported length increases the resistance to rocking/jamming. Can you help...
Let's say i'm designing a rectangular button with these two different cross sections. The button is constrained on the left and right by a vertical wall and supported on the bottom by a spring directly below the CG. The only difference between options 1 and 2 is length l.
Three questions:
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