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Designing Novel Grooved Pallets For Industrial Application, Mirza Mohammed Abdullah Baig Jan 2018

Designing Novel Grooved Pallets For Industrial Application, Mirza Mohammed Abdullah Baig

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The purpose of this study was to model an improved pallet design which could overcome the drawbacks and failures of the pallets available in the market today. The new modeled pallets were designed to improve the capacity of the individual pallets and thereby increase the efficiency of the material handling process. The new modeled pallets were also designed with the aim to replace the racking system used for storage in the warehouse industry. The study was performed using two finite element analysis software, SOLIDWORKS and ANSYS, as analysis tools to study the behavior of the design under various real world …