Modeling of vibrational non-impact motion of mobile-based body

The paper deals with vibrational non-impact displacement of a mobile-based body on an inclined plane. Two cases are considered: when the body is subjected to kinematical excitement, and when the plane is excited in two perpendicular directions. This phenomenon is used in vibratory assembly devices, where vibration excitement compensates interdependent orientation errors of the components subjected to assembly. Transient and periodic regimes of the body motion from static to dynamic equilibrium are investigated. Dependencies of maximum displacement and average creeping displacement speed upon the elastic resistance force, body pressure to the plane force, the ratio of mutually perpendicular vibration amplitudes, and the phase of these vibrations are presented. The possibilities and conditions of automatic components assembling by applying vibration displacement are characterized. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.