Desarrollo de una interfaz gráfica en Matlab para el diseño y selección de elementos mecánicos : Diseño y selección de bandas y poleas.

Abstract

To exempt the tedious use of extensive formulas for the design or selection of belts and pulleys for power transmission, a friendly and easy-to-use user interface was created that replaces the use of extensive equations with the simple procedure of entering main data and letting the user interface take care of the rest. To carry out this user interface, a thorough investigation of the book by Shigley (2008), Design in Mechanical Engineering, section 17 “Flexible mechanical elements” was made to obtain the main mathematical models, also with the help of an extension of the MatLab program, called AppDesigner which, using a programming language, allows you to design and create user interfaces in a simple way. Several main and help graphical windows were created for the iterative use of this interface, followed by the software for the design and selection of flat belts and pulleys, which was reduced to an executable file with an .exe extension so that it can be executed on any computer. with any operating system, so anyone can use the user interface. To verify the operation of the user interface, the resolution of an exercise proposed by Shigley's book was taken as an example, where the data obtained with the graphical interface was compared, as well as with Shigley himself. And as a last step, videos were developed both for the installation and for the general use of the user interface, which are helpful for those who wish to use this program.