Input: the orange roller installed on a plate that can turn around a fixed shaft. Center of the small roller must be above the line connecting center of the big …
Input: the grey cone. Output: the brown cone in which an yellow control bar can slide (not rotate). Two long rollers contact with both cones due to revolution joints between …
The input pink ellipse roller rotates regularly. The output green roller rotates irregularly. Contact pressures are created by the grey weight and the orange screw.
The Orion crew exploration vehicle took shape as the two halves of the crew module were fused together by a 445-inch-long weld at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, …
A simple method to measure friction torque M generated in revolution joint of the grey inner ring and the orange outer one. The grey ring is fixed on the blue …
Shane Brooke, welding engineer at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., discusses friction stir welding and its use in the engineering of spacecraft.
Input: the blue shaft with a cone disk. Output: the yellow shaft with a cone disk. The orange spherical caps idly rotate on their axles and are forced toward the …
Input: the orange disk of spherical cap mounted on a motor shaft. The grey disk has sliding key joint with the blue output shaft. A spring creates contact pressure between …
Input: the orange shaft carrying a friction disk. Turn the yellow screw to move the pink roller for changing velocity of the blue output shaft carrying a friction disk. Velocity …
Input: the pink shaft carrying a friction external cone. Output: the green shaft carrying a spur gear. The yellow shaft with a gear and an internal cone can rotate on …