Rocker Arm Design Example
Step 2: Determine a design concept (continued)
Working Model Concept also allows the user to specify how much material to remove in the initial optimization cycle. The previous results specified 5%. By changing this to 30%, the concept in Figure 4 is obtained.
Figure 4: Animation of new design concept. (Click to view VRML file.)The differences between this concept and the previous are in the web and the upper and lower flange.
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