Design and Analysis of an Acrylic Front of a Novel Mechanical Highway Billboard Oakland University

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Wang, Xiyun, author.

Contributor:

Angott, Paul

Gu, Randy

Pimentel, Hugo

Conference Name:

SAE WCX Digital Summit (2021-04-13 : Live Online, Pennsylvania, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2021

Summary:

Billboards are an effective instrument of advertisement at areas with high traffic flow such as alongside highways. They provide information to drivers for food, fuel, lodging, attractions, et cetera A novel mechanical billboard has been conceived recently which contains rolling tubes to alternate as many as twelve printed signs. It has the advantages of both flexibility and cost-effectiveness. A container is built to protect the mechanism from the weather elements. To allow the displayed messages to be visible, a transparent acrylic front is installed. Due to its mechanical properties, it is a challenging task in designing a functional acrylic front. A reinforcement is selected to counter the weak flexural rigidity of the front during winds. On the other hand, the reinforced acrylic front must maintain sufficient visibility. In this study, a couple of conceptual designs are presented followed by the computer-aided engineering analysis regarding the strength, deformation and durability of the front under static, dynamic and fluid-solid-interaction (FSI) settings. A commercial finite element (FE) code is employed for modeling and numerical analysis. A few design issues related to mechanism as well as the results from numerical analysis are presented

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Publisher Number:

2021-01-0832

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