Investigation and Simulation of Coconut Fibrous Husk Extracting Tool Geometry Using Finite Element Analysis.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17762/msea.v71i4.585Abstract
This report includes the thorough analysis of developing tool geometry to extract coconut fibrous husk. The research consists of the purpose of selection of the tool material, determining the force, the stress, strain energy, deformation, and loadings. The report also includes the study of the material science and selection of the material used for developing the tool which proves high in strength, possess good mechanical properties, cost effective, safe in design considering important parameters used in mechanical engineering design. The study of the structure of coconuts and its properties and the strength required to peel its fibrous husk using a tool was considered in the report. The material used to develop the extractor tool was Structural steel with medium carbon content ranging 0.25 to 0.55 %. The method used was Finite Element Method. The analysis software used was Ansys 16.0. The analysis results obtained on considering the de husking properties of coconut gave force required for peeling of coconut fibrous husk as 114 N For the shear stress of the coconut husk extracting tool the maximum value obtained was 1.6539 x 106 and the minimum value obtained -1.7689 x 106. For the shear elastic strain of the coconut husk extracting tool maximum value obtained was 2.1501 x 10-5and the minimum value obtained -2.2995 x 10-5 . The total deformation of the coconut husk extracting tool, the maximum value obtained was 6.9214 x 10-6 and the minimum value obtained was -7.6904 x 10-7.