The following Macintosh applications have been prepared to assist in the design task. They are not available for Windows operating systems.
A compressed application may be downloaded by clicking its name below, and is ready to run after being expanded by Stuffit Expander or a similar .sit file decompressor.While every care has been taken to ensure the correctness of the following applications, they are intended for educational rather than commercial use and no liability is accepted if they are not used as intended.
| COMPILED APPLICATIONS FOR COMPONENT DESIGN & ANALYSIS | ||
| brakes | analyses twin rigid shoe brakes for sensitivity, torque, bearing loads etc | |
| FEM1 | finite element analysis of two-dimensional linear elastic systems | |
| fillet welds | analyses fillet welded planar joints consisting of a number of straight runs | |
| motors | assists selection of a squirrel cage motor for a given duty & acceleration time | |
| springs | facilitates the fatigue design of round wire steel compression springs | |
| steel spur gears | analyses steel spur gears for safety against strength and wear failure | |
| tooth generator | simulates manufacture of an involute gear tooth by rack generation | |
| V-belts | selects V-belt drives suitable for a defined duty | |
| TEXT FILES | ||
| FEX00 | specimen datafile for FEM1 | |
| heads | data base for pressure vessel design | |
© Copyright 1999-2005 Douglas Wright, doug@mech.uwa.edu.au