Theoretical and Experimental Stress Analysis of Cam With Simple Harmonic Motion

Abstract

Cams are considered as one of the most important mechanical components that depends the contact action to do its job and suffer a lot of with drawbacks to be predicted and overcame in the design process. this work aims to investigate the induced cam contact and the maximum shear stress energy or (von misses) stresses during the course of action analytically using Hertz contact stress equation and the principal stress formulations to find the maximum stress value and its position beneath the contacting surfaces. The experimental investigation adopted two dimensions photoelastic technique to analyze cam stresses under a plane polarized light. The problem has been numerically simulated using Ansys software version 15 as FE solver and depending on Lagrange and Penalty contact algorithm. The effect of cam geometry, characterized by some parameters such as follower radius, face width, rise and return angles, and modulus of elasticity on the contact stress is investigated aiming  to minimize the induced stresses.