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Design of Bed of Lathe Machine

1. The lathe bed acts as the base that supports the headstock, tailstock, and saddle. It is typically made of cast iron for its strength, rigidity, and ability to dampen vibrations. 2. Forces acting on the lathe bed include gravitational forces from heavy machine components, cutting forces transferred through the carriage, and forces from the headstock and tailstock. 3. A CAD model of the lathe bed was created to simulate these forces and analyze stresses and deformations on the bed during operation.

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Design of Bed of Lathe Machine

1. The lathe bed acts as the base that supports the headstock, tailstock, and saddle. It is typically made of cast iron for its strength, rigidity, and ability to dampen vibrations. 2. Forces acting on the lathe bed include gravitational forces from heavy machine components, cutting forces transferred through the carriage, and forces from the headstock and tailstock. 3. A CAD model of the lathe bed was created to simulate these forces and analyze stresses and deformations on the bed during operation.

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Design of bed of lathe machine

Introduction:
The bed of lathe acts as the base on which the different fixed and operations parts of the
lathe are mounted. Lathe beds are usually made as single piece casting of semi-steel(i.e.,
toughened cast iron), with the addition of small quantity of steel scrap to the cast iron during
melting; the material ‘cast iron’ facilitating an easy sliding action. In case of extremely large
machines, the bed may be in two or more pieces, bolted together to form the desired length.
Lathe bed are heavy rigid structure which is having high damping capacity for the vibrations
generated by machines during machining. The rigid structure helps to avoid deflections. The
guide and ways which are present on the top of the bed will act as rails and supports other
parts like tail stock. The bed will be designed in such a way that easily bolted to the floor of
the machine shop. The type of beds include “V” beds flat beds and combination of both “V”
and combination beds are used for precision and light duty work, while falt beds are used for
heavy duty work.

Selection of Material
Grey Cast Iron
We have chosen this material because
It has high compressible strength
It has stable structure.
It absorbs vibrations very efficiently.
It is also known for holding its shape when subjected to contraction and expansion due to
temperature fluctuations.

Assumptions :
Boundary conditions
A condition that is required to satisfied at all or parts of the boundary of the boundary of a
region in which a set of different conditions is to be solved.

1. The base of the lathe machine bed is fixed to the floor. Therefore base of lathe bed is
constrained in all directions (UX=UY=UZ=0).
2. Gravitational force is applied, to add stress distribution and deformation due to self-weight.

Forces Applied On Lathe Bed:


To design a lathe bed, initially we have to analyse, the stresses and deformations including in
lathe bed due to cutting forces generates by cutting tool and work piece interation. The design
of lathe bed is preceded by analysis of forces that are acting on the system due to tool work
piece interaction. In current analysis we considered the maximum torque which is supplied by
electric motor of the lathe machine.
Cutting forces will be transferred to the lathe bed at carriage region. So we applied foece at
carriage region (while in machining process, carriage slides over lathe bed). We simplified
analysis by fixing its location. We considered its location near to the head stock because in
most manufacturing cases we don’t slide carriage beyond middle portion of lathe bed).
1. Gravitational forces: Dead weight of the major and heavy components of the machine such as
headstock, tailstock, saddle, bed and moving tables etc.
2. Frictional forces: Due to rubbing at the sliding surfaces.
3. Cutting forces originating at the cutting point.
4. Inertial forces:Due to acceleration and deceleration at the end points of sliding and
reciprocating motions of heavy parts like carriage or saddle, turret slide, tool slides, moving
beds, reciprocating tables, rams, jobs etc.
5. Centrifugal forces:
Due to high speed rotation of eccentric masses.
Due to wide run out or eccentric rotation of jobs, machine tool parts, spindle, shafts, tools etc.

Forces acting on the headstock side:


o On the headstock centre:
Forces acting on the Tailstock side

Forces acting on the lathe bed

The lathe bed receives forces through;


 The headstock and tailstock.
 The saddle on which the cutting tool is mounted.

o Forces through headstock and tailstock


The headstock is kept fixed by two pairs of bolts or studs on the lathe bed and the tailstock is
clamped on the bed by one bolt. The forces acting on the bed through the front and the rear
pair of the bolts are:
Where PV1 and PV2 are vertical forces and PH1 and PH2 are horizontal.

Similarly the forces acting on the lathe bed through the tailstock are:

o Forces acting on the lathe bed through the saddle.


The cutting tool receives all the forces P,P,P but in opposite direction as reaction forces. And
those forces are transmitted on the lathe bed through the saddle as indicated in Fig
The saddle rests on and travels along the lathe bed. All the forces acting on the bed through
the saddle are assumed to be concentrated at four salient locations, A, B, C and D within the
saddle bed overlapped area as shown. Then from the force diagram in Fig the vertical forces
(V) and horizontal forces (H) can be roughly determined.

Fig
CAD Model of Bed:

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