Measurement and Evaluation of Vacuum Suction Cups using Digital Image Correlation Oakland Univ

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Xu, Wan, author.

Contributor:

Guo, bicheng

Ma, Wen

Wang, Rong

Yang, Lianxiang

Zhang, Boyang

Conference Name:

WCX SAE World Congress Experience (2020-04-21 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2020

Summary:

As vacuum suction cups are widely used in stamping plants, it becomes urgent and important to understand their performance and failure modes. Vacuum suction cups are employed to lift, move, and place sheet metal instead of human's hands. Occasionally the vacuum cups would fail and drop parts, even it would cause expensive delays in the production line. In this research, several types of vacuum cups have been studies and compared experimentally. A new tensile device and test method was developed to measure the pulling force and deformation of vacuum cups. The digital image correlation technique has been adopted to capture and analyze the contour, deformation and strain of the cups under different working conditions. The experimental results revealed that the relevant influential parameters include cup type, pulling force angles, vacuum levels, sheet metal curvatures, et cetera Also, the deformation distribution and history of the cups denote the weak part and failure mechanism during operation. Moreover, this work could help designers and operators thoroughly understanding the performance of vacuum suction cups and greatly improved in further work

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Publisher Number:

2020-01-0542

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