Now that we have established the basic parameters, we need to move on to the spring constant calculations. Here we run into some things that frankly don't make a lot of sense, perhaps the reader can help to resolve the dilemmas. The original calculations are here. Let's start by looking again at the basic impact-vibration … Continue reading Checking the Soviets: The Strange Case of the Spring Constants
In our last post Checking the Soviets: A Tale of Two Cities we described the underlying institutions that designed and built impact-vibration equipment. Henceforth, based on this post we will refer to the two groups as the "Moscow" and "Leningrad" groups, to save the reader having to deal with the Cyrillic alphabet soup that Soviet institutions … Continue reading Checking the Soviets: Finding the Frequency and Establishing Basic Parameters
In our last post Checking the Soviets: Determining the Eccentric Moment, we looked at a specific calculation of the eccentric moment of an impact-vibration hammer. Before we get further into this topic, it would be good to pause and give some background on how the Soviets developed the impact-vibration hammer. Once it got out of its … Continue reading Checking the Soviets: A Tale of Two Cities
I originally posted this in 2013 on another forum. Recently I had a round of correspondence with a county official in Washington state re pile drivability studies and their place in the contract process. (If you're looking for some explanation of this, you can find it here). His question was as follows: During the bidding … Continue reading My Perspective on Driven Pile Drivability Studies
This is the first in an aperiodic series on design calculations for a piece of experimental Soviet construction equipment, in this case an S-834 impact-vibration hammer. A more complete history of these machines (a co-author was one of the designers) is here. We're going to compare the calculations originally done on these machines with what … Continue reading Checking the Soviets: Determining the Eccentric Moment
Coil springs never were a prominent part of most Vulcan hammers, but they did appear in spots and they are an important part of machine design. In this post we'll go over the basics of these, based on Belyaev and Juvinall and Marshek (1985). The basics of spring design and nomenclature. The springs shown in … Continue reading Analysis of Springs with Circular Cross Section
In a recent post I discussed curved beam analysis with a rectangular cross section, and as a follow-up a comparison of that type of analysis with finite element results. Many curved beams, such as the lifting hook shown above, do not have rectangular cross-sections. This is an interesting topic, not only because of the engineering … Continue reading Curved Beam Analysis on a Hand-Forged, Non-Rectangular Cross Section
One interesting device people use to estimate the output energy of a diesel hammer is the Saximeter. Originally developed by Pileco, it's a quick way to estimate the output energy based on the blow rate of the hammer. The operating cycle of a diesel hammer, in this case a Nilens hammer. The Saximeter takes advantage … Continue reading How the Saximeter Works, and Why You Can’t Use It on a Vulcan (or any other External Combustion) Hammer
Our government moves to mandate them: The new proposed rule, announced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday, would require that gas-burning residential furnaces achieve 95 percent energy efficiency by 2029. The stated goal is to lower consumers' energy bills in the long run and limit harmful emissions...The DOE press release says that homeowners … Continue reading Condensing Gas Furnaces: the Vulcanaire Supertherm of HVAC
As sort of a "postscript" to the earlier post Stresses for Curved Beams with Rectangular Cross Sections, let's compare these results with those from finite element analysis. For the example we'll use the example from Belyaev shown below. For this example we'll stick with Those Pesky Kilogram-Force Units that he uses. We'll use an old version of … Continue reading Comparing Curved Beam Analytic Analysis with Finite Element Results
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