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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

compliant centrifugal clutch, computer-aided engineering

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

Department

Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

Contemporary engineering has received the benefits of computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools that automate and simplify the design of mechanical systems. However, such tools do not provide direct support for the specific field of compliant mechanisms, whose behavior can require difficult techniques for design and synthesis. Compliant mechanisms utilize flexible segments instead of joints, to achieve their motion. It was proposed that two CAE tools, namely Pro/ENGINEER and ADAMS/View, along with a method for analyzing compliant mechanisms known as the pseudo-rigid-body model, could greatly reduce the time and effort required to generate accurate results in the analysis of a compliant centrifugal clutch. This type of clutch holds significant advantages over conventional clutches due to the reduction in costs of assembly and tolerance allocation, so any tool to simplify its design and analysis is very desirable.

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