Dynamic Analysis of a cylindrical cam and Follower using Finite Element Analysis

Abstract

The cylindrical cam and follower mechanism is highly used in the packaging industry to obtain the sequential operation of material filling in the packaging machine. The occurrence of frictional wear between the cam and follower involves the reduction of cam life that eventually affects the quality of packing in package industry. In this work, an attempt is made to simulate the static and dynamic analysis of cam at low speed. Both the static and dynamic simulations are made for the cylindrical cam follower arrangement using a commercially available finite element code ANSYS 14.5. The simulation of static analysis is carried out to predict the deformation of cam. The simulation of dynamic analysis is also conducted to investigate the effect of vibration on the performance of cam follower mechanism during a packing operation.