DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF FORKS FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF SPECIAL PURPOSE STACKER

Abstract

For a material handling system design, material handling equipment selection and its design is the first stage. This project is mainly concentrated on the design and analysis special purpose stacker and its forks, for lifting heavy load. The forks have to sustain the load without any failure up to four ton. By the Practical experimentation results for the deflection in the rare and the front end of the forks are should be acceptable. The result when compared to the calculated values before designing of forks and the model analysis using ANSYS should be less than plus or minus 4 mm, which is a standard variation acceptable by the customer. Hence all the customer requirements and conditions were successfully achieved.