Cross Bracing No Bracing Diagonal Bracing Here’s a quick bracing tip – Diagonal bracing adds significant torsional stiffness compared to conventional cross bracing. This is because the diagonal members are primarily under bending stress and very rigid....
Here’s a quick tip for folding sheet metal – If multiple returns are needed on a sheet metal pressing, make each return twice as long as the previous one as shown in the example picture. This allows good clearance between the blade and the return as...
If you want to reduce costs of manufacture, consider redesigning your machine brackets. You can do this by changing the brackets material or the way they are manufactured, or changing the load path. Most machine brackets are either cast iron or welded steel. A quick...
Consider a tee bracket subjected to a horizontal force. This is just a simple example, but as the mesh refinement increases the corner stress is shown to be diverging, not converging. How do you know what the actual stress will be? The corner stress can be calculated...
Engineering design concerns us all. In new products we expect higher quality, better reliability, lower cost, improved safety and more respect for the environment. Caliber Design’s Director, Jonathan Prince, and Formway Life Chair product development he leaded...
Design Engineers with hands-on experience skilled in multiple Industries FEA analysis to verify designs or negate the need for costly prototypes The team at Caliber Design are ready to help you with your next design or analysis project. We have a team of skilled...
