ON MATERIALS HANDLING MACHINES Minimizing Adhesive Tractive Forces, Using GPOT

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Lecturer, Dept. of Prod. Eng. & Design, Faculty of Engineering & Tech., Menoufia University Shebin El-Kom, EGYPT.

Abstract

The ability of application of GPOT(Geometric Programming Optimization Technique) to design some members of materials handling machines with preventing the tipping over phenomenon is discussed. The application is done on FEL (Front-End-Loaders) and finds out the values of the design variables which are the nominal value of minimum machine weight and of maximum lifting load. These values are used to compute the minimum value of the adhesive tractive forces with avoiding the tipping over of the machine. The signomial GPOT is applied to construct design nomograms by which the designer of FEL can easily estimate values of the design variables and make correlation between these values and other parameter value. Then the preliminary information concern the method of determining stochastically the optimum real values of such design variables is given.