CFD Projects

Vibration Isolation Selection Program (V.I.S.P.)

Developing algorithms to determine point loads

Given equipment and its mass distribution in space, along with the structure of the equipment, the first challenging task is to determine ideal points where a vibration isolator can be installed. This can be done by considering the equipment as a point load, or determining n different sub-components of the equipment with similar density profile to determine the center of gravity. The second task is to determine the vibration load on the component and the natural frequency of vibration of the same. Given these inputs, the peak loads at the installation points can be found out.

Optimizations

The loads at various points determine the optimum isolator to be installed at the location. The optimization takes further into consideration both technical as well as pricing optimization to give the best selection for given equipment.

Conclusion

The key benefits of the softwarecan be listed out as follows:
i) Rapid selection of isolators from pre-defined set of isolator database.
ii) Avoiding human induced errors during selection.
iii) Optimization both in engineering as well as pricing domain.
iv) Transfer of knowledge to a software owned by the organization to make it person-independent.
v) Data exclusively secured using cryptic algorithms to ensure authenticated access.

Objective

Protecting equipments from shocks is very important to increase the life of the product. Vibration isolation products are used for such purposes. However selecting an optimized set of isolators technically is a challenging task. One needs to know the center of gravity of the equipment, its vibration frequency to determine the optimized points in isolator installation. Selection of the rated load of the isolator is also a critical task; under-design & over-design are the typical problems. However, selecting a proper set of isolators is a technically challenging task and takes considerable time per installation.