Finite Element Analysis of Hydraulic Press Machine

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to reduce the cost of the Hydraulic presses without compromising on the output quality. By using prime resources in designing hydraulic press can influence cost reduction factor of hydraulic presses. One way of doing it is, by optimizing the volume of material utilized for building the body. An attempt has been made in this direction to reduce the volume of material. So this paper consider an industrial application project consisting of mass minimization of a workshop type hydraulic press. This workshop type hydraulic press has to compensate the forces acting on the working plates and has to satisfy certain critical constraints. Major parts of the hydraulic press machine are analyzed for stresses and deformation by both theoretically and by finite element software. ANSYS has been used for this analysis which uses finite element method for solution. These stresses are compared to Yield stress and considering minimum Factor of safety of 2.