{"title":"Computer-Aided design of belt and pulley systems using Visual Basic","authors":"A. Obi, C. A. Ngene, I. Aji, O. Ogunleye","doi":"10.4314/JAST.V15I1-2.54816","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A Visual Basic Code “DriveCad” was developed for analysis and design of flat and V-belt drives. The Code was used to solve design problems and the results compared favorably with data generated by manual computat-ions, with variation of less than 1.6 %. DriveCad was used to generate scaled 2-dimensional drawings of pulley and belt assembly at reduced design time with minimal roundoff errors.","PeriodicalId":9207,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British Journal of Applied Science and Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/JAST.V15I1-2.54816","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A Visual Basic Code “DriveCad” was developed for analysis and design of flat and V-belt drives. The Code was used to solve design problems and the results compared favorably with data generated by manual computat-ions, with variation of less than 1.6 %. DriveCad was used to generate scaled 2-dimensional drawings of pulley and belt assembly at reduced design time with minimal roundoff errors.