11.01.2015 Views

Master Thesis - OUFTI-1

Master Thesis - OUFTI-1

Master Thesis - OUFTI-1

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Components Young's moduli (GP a) Poisson ratios Densities (kg/m 3 )<br />

P C 104 connector 0.846 0.3 1406.923<br />

PCB 20 0.3 4046.952<br />

Table 5.6: Properties of the COM card<br />

Battery support<br />

The battery support is more dicult to model. Indeed, its two parts (the box and the<br />

cover), made of Al − 7075 T 6, have specic geometries which do not allow to model them<br />

using shell elements. So, to be as accurate as possible, it was decided to model these two<br />

parts using volume elements. For the batteries, the problem is quite dierent. These ones<br />

do not have a constant thickness, and their Young's modulus is not known. So, it was<br />

decided to represent them using a local mass smearing method (the mass of the batteries<br />

can be obtained by weighting them or by consulting their datasheet). As remind, the<br />

density of the battery is 2159.25 kg/m 3 . Then, the batteries are xed to their support<br />

using a "glue" assembly.<br />

Assembly<br />

These ve electronic cards and the battery support are all xed on the endless screws.<br />

To realize these connections, some vertex were added to each endless screws, at the level<br />

of each of these components. These vertex are used to create the endless screws and so,<br />

are rigidly xed to them. Then, a "mean" assembly is applied between each vertex and<br />

the wire of its corresponding hole on the considered component.<br />

5.2.6 The endless screws<br />

The endless screws, due to their higher dimensions and to the fact that they are involved<br />

in a lot of connections (as explained in section 5.2.5), will be modeled more accurately than<br />

the screws which connect the CSK structural parts together. These screws are M3 × 8 cm<br />

stainless steel screws. So, to model them accurately, a circular beam behavior was used,<br />

with a diameter of 2.459 mm, which corresponds to the M3 standard.<br />

In reality, these screws are connected to the base plate at one extremity, and to the<br />

chassis at the other, thanks to the midplane standos. For the rst connection, the same<br />

assembly method as the one used for the electronic cards and the battery support, is<br />

applied. For the second one, an homemade method was imagined. The midplane standos<br />

were replaced by two vertex connected together using a "xed" assembly. To clarify the<br />

following explication, Figure 5.6 shows this particular modeling. One of these vertex (1) is<br />

108

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!