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Course Mechanical
Numerical Analysis Department:
Name: Engineering
Course
MEEN-3116 Due Date: 10th Jan, 2022
Code:

Note: This assignment is related to CLO3 and carries 10 marks with 100% weightage.

Assignment
Problem Statement: A Mechanical Engineer needs to program a Computer Numerical
Control (CNC) milling machine to fabricate a cam profile meant to operate the intake valves
in an internal combustion engine. His task is to design a disk cam (rotating counter clockwise)
to move a radial roller follower (in the vertical y-direction) as shown in figure 1.

Figure 1: Motion of CAM and follower.

Specifically, the cam is to move the follower as described in table 1.

Table 1: Cam follower movement as a function of cam rotation.

CAM rotation from X-Axis Follower movement in Y-direction

0° 0.0
90° 1.0
180° 0.0
270° 0.0
360° 0.0

The Mechanical Engineer has specified seven points along the profile of the cam at 30°

increments as shown in figure 2.

Figure 2: Schematic of a CAM profile.

The geometry of the cam (i.e., coordinates of the seven points on the cam surface) are given

in table 2.

Table 2: Geometry of the cam.

Point Angle from X-Axis X Y
1 -90° 2.20 0.00
2 -60° 1.28 0.88
3 -30° 0.66 1.14
4 0° 0.00 1.20
5 30° -0.60 1.04
6 60° -1.04 0.60
7 90° -1.20 0.00

You are required to;

1. Fit a smooth curve through the all these seven points keeping in mind that the final

curve must have an infinite slope at points 1 and 7, and zero slope at point 4.

2. Develop a computer program in MATLAB or Octave for your above computation.

3. Plot the smooth curve that you have found.

Rubrics for Assignment (Total Marks = 10)

Criteria / Marks 1 0.5 1

Ability to judge the Not able to identify Partially Well-identified.
problem. problem. Identified.

Criteria / Marks 1 2.5 4

Use of Numerical Analysis Chose arbitrary Chose a method Right tool for the
techniques. method, not well but not suitable. job.
thought off.

Criteria / Marks 1 2 4

Many programming Few steps are

Correct code with
steps are missing or missing but
Code formulation. intended
code unable to run working without
functionality.
properly. error.

Criteria / Marks 0.25 0.5 1

Few sections are

Most of the sections
missing / Few
Assignment presentation. are missing / Not Well-presented.
mistakes in
suitable.
formatting.

Note:
1. No submission will be accepted after the due date.
2. Plagiarized assignments will be rejected outright. You have been warned.

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