Hi
I work for an excavator bucket manufacturing company and we do a lot of Freeze-fitting on the bushes. I have come across a continuous issue regarding the fitting of some of the bushes as we can't work out how the bushings behave when frozen i.e. how much they shrink by, using liquid...
rb1957,
I know that our buckets have NEVER faild in the field but they are always over engineered (I'm actually quoting our design manager on this) which is something that we need to address.
As for our goals, we would like to validate our designs earlier in the design process and not when the...
dwallace1971,
I see your point, but I don't think our company is willing to hire a full time analysis with £40000 salary even though that would be the proper approach to this problem. We don't do any hand calcs whatsoever as our senior design engineer makes all the decisions based on his own...
Hi
I am a recent machanical engineering graduate and currently working for an excavators bucket manufacturing company. We have had no experience of utilising any FEA packages so far, however we have been looking into getting a FEA software to validate our designs and optimise our products.
I...
