Design and Manufacturing of Test rig to test rubber’s durability

Abstract

Our research is centred on a track link, which is an essential component of tanks and excavators. The track link has 2 parts, a steel part and a rubber part. The rubber part is being imported from China and it has to be tested before it can be used for large scale production. To check the rubber’s durability, companies put their excavators and tanks through a real time test and run the excavator or tank for a large distance and then check the rubber’s thickness to see whether it has worn out as much as it is supposed to be, or more? This entire process is extremely costly, tedious and time taking. It hurts a companies’ financial reserves real bad. The Rubster (our test rig) is the answer to this problem. It can accurately test a rubber’s durability so that industries and companies no longer have to run their tanks and excavators for thousands of miles. What took millions of rupees to accomplish, will now take thousands only. What took months to achieve, can now be achieved in a matter of hours.