Effects of Rotational Speed, Center Distance and Diameter Ratios on the Dynamic Response of Pulley-Belt System Depends on Vibration Analysis

Abstract

This paper presents the dynamic response related to varying in indispensable parameters of pulley-belt system, a manufactured pulley-belt system has been built and experimental results have been obtained and analyzed accurately which reveal the effects of these parameters on indicated system. Manufactured system assembled from heavy steel structure, variable speed DC motor, speed measurement tool (tachometer), two shafts of 25 mm diameter, four pillow block ball bearings, V-belts and pulleys with different diameters (10, 15, 20, 25) cm. The fabricated system presents mechanical characteristics likes serial changing in rotational speed (500 to 2000) rpm, diameters ratios (1 to 2.5) and center distance (27 to 120) cm. accelerometer ADXL335 (3-axis) mounted on bearing brackets of drive and driven shafts and connected to Arduino type mega 2560 (microcontroller) which sending the data of vibration to the laptop in order to display it in Sigview software as a time and frequency domain band by FFT (fast fourier transform). Results showed the effects of change the values of rotational speed, center distance, and diameters ratios on vibration response of pulley-belt system.