Title :
Study on durability allocation of mechanical system technique based on virtual prototyping
Author :
Sun, Wei ; Li, Ranjie ; Yang, Tao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Acad. of Armored Forces Eng., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Durability allocation is an important part of durability design in mechanical system. Whether durability allocation is reasonable or not directly impacts the pertinence and validity of maintenance. When designing durability, lifetime data of components is necessary. The way to obtain lifetime is normally through test which takes so long and cost so much so that it cannot be adopted at initial stage. Tracked vehicles´ moving system is taken as study target. Fatigue life of key parts that is necessary in durability distribution of mechanical system is predicted using virtual simulation. Durability distribution of moving system is analyzed by the predicted life, which presents a scientific method of distributing durability in the design process.
Keywords :
durability; maintenance engineering; mechanical products; military computing; military vehicles; product design; reliability; virtual prototyping; component lifetime data; durability design allocation; maintenance; mechanical system technique; product design quality; tracked vehicle moving system; virtual prototyping; Bars; Elbow; Fatigue; Life testing; Mechanical systems; Predictive models; Solid modeling; Stress; Vehicle dynamics; Virtual prototyping; distribution method; durability; virtual prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability, Maintainability and Safety, 2009. ICRMS 2009. 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4903-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4905-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICRMS.2009.5269970