Experimental and numerical analysis of clamped joints in front motorbike suspensions
Clamped joints are shaft-hub connections used, as an instance, in front motorbike suspensions to lock the steering plates with the legs and the legs with the wheel pin, by means of one or two bolts. The preloading force, produced during the tightening process, should be evaluated accurately, sinc...
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| author | Vincenzi N. De Agostinis M. Croccolo D. |
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| description | Clamped joints are shaft-hub connections used, as an instance, in front motorbike suspensions to lock the steering plates with the legs and the legs with the wheel pin, by means of one or two bolts. The preloading force, produced during the tightening process, should be evaluated accurately, since it must lock safely the shaft, without overcoming the yielding point of the hub. Firstly, friction coefficients have been evaluated on “ad-hoc designed” specimens, by applying the Design of Experiment approach: the applied tightening torque has been precisely related to the imposed preloading force. Then, the tensile state of clamps have been evaluated both via FEM and by leveraging some design formulae proposed by the Authors as function of the preloading force and of the clamp geometry. Finally, the results have been compared to those given by some strain gauges applied on the tested clamps: the discrepancies between numerical analyses, the design formulae and the experimental results remains under a threshold of 10%. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-599a08ec1a0f4340af7b963ad8e79e372022-12-21T23:17:04ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2010-06-0161500210.1051/epjconf/20100615002Experimental and numerical analysis of clamped joints in front motorbike suspensionsVincenzi N.De Agostinis M.Croccolo D.Clamped joints are shaft-hub connections used, as an instance, in front motorbike suspensions to lock the steering plates with the legs and the legs with the wheel pin, by means of one or two bolts. The preloading force, produced during the tightening process, should be evaluated accurately, since it must lock safely the shaft, without overcoming the yielding point of the hub. Firstly, friction coefficients have been evaluated on “ad-hoc designed” specimens, by applying the Design of Experiment approach: the applied tightening torque has been precisely related to the imposed preloading force. Then, the tensile state of clamps have been evaluated both via FEM and by leveraging some design formulae proposed by the Authors as function of the preloading force and of the clamp geometry. Finally, the results have been compared to those given by some strain gauges applied on the tested clamps: the discrepancies between numerical analyses, the design formulae and the experimental results remains under a threshold of 10%.http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20100615002 |
| spellingShingle | Vincenzi N. De Agostinis M. Croccolo D. Experimental and numerical analysis of clamped joints in front motorbike suspensions EPJ Web of Conferences |
| title | Experimental and numerical analysis of clamped joints in front motorbike suspensions |
| title_full | Experimental and numerical analysis of clamped joints in front motorbike suspensions |
| title_fullStr | Experimental and numerical analysis of clamped joints in front motorbike suspensions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experimental and numerical analysis of clamped joints in front motorbike suspensions |
| title_short | Experimental and numerical analysis of clamped joints in front motorbike suspensions |
| title_sort | experimental and numerical analysis of clamped joints in front motorbike suspensions |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20100615002 |
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