Roller Follower

WM2D File

vN4D File

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Software copyright © 2004 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Info

Roller followers are essentially ball or roller bearings and therefore have low frictional loss. They are most frequently used in production machinery because of their ease of replacement and availability from bearing manufacturers’ stock.

Source

This Working Model file is adapted from Figure 8.3a on p. 382 in Design of Machinery, 3rd ed. by Norton, R. L., McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Credits

This Working Model file was first developed by Fan (Michael) Mo. The visualNastran 4D files was first developed by Christopher Murphy.