Advanced Composite Industries provides a service whereby they will redesign an existing
Aluminum and Steel Dial Table from Composite Materials.
A replacement Composite Dial Table is required to fit into the same working envelope has the
existing Dial Table. This usually means that Dial Table thickness must be accounted for in the
design. In addition the replacement dial table should have a value of stiffness comparable to the
existing Dial Table.
The replacement Composite Dial Table
must have the same radial stiffness D and
thickness as the existing Aluminum Dial
Table. To achieve the same stiffness a
Special Ribbed Carbon Dial was designed.
An Aluminum Dial Table redesigned from a Special
Ribbed Composite Material. The Special Ribbed Carbon
Dial Table had the same Thickness and Radial Stiffness
as the Aluminum Dial Table that it replaced.
To show index/min performance, an Aluminum and Special
Ribbed Carbon Dial Table was compared. A total tooling load
of 32lbs (2 lb per tool/16 stations) was applied at the perimeter
of each dial table.
The B10 life was
calculated using
proprietary
indexer
manufactures
equations. ACI
reduces the B10
life by 50%.
The Aluminum Dial Table had a maximum performance of 178 index's/min. The
Special Ribbed Carbon Dial Table had a maximum performance of 198 index's/min.
The Special Ribbed Carbon Dial Table increased the index's/min by 20, a
11.2% increase.
CONTACT ACI to discuss the feasibility of re-designing
exiting Aluminum or Steel Dial Table products from
SPECIAL RIBBED CARBON DIAL MATERIAL.
