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Case Study: Shelf Brackets
Design Brief
These brackets are required to provide support to book shelves. All the
specifications of the concepts fulfil the design constraints.
Department of Industrial and
Manufacturing Engineering University of
Malta
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Catalogue
Department of Industrial and
Manufacturing Engineering University of
Malta
Name: Shelf Bracket A
Description: Shelf bracket
Number of parts: 2 Maximum Load per Bracket (kg): 20
Cost (Euros)/bracket : 9 Material: Stainless steel
Comments:
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Name: Shelf Bracket B
Description: Ribbed Shelf bracket
Number of parts: 2 Maximum Load per Bracket (kg): 40
Cost (Euros)/bracket : 14 Material: Stainless steel
Comments:
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Name: Shelf Bracket C
Description:
Number of parts: 5 Maximum Load per Bracket (kg): 5
Cost (Euros)/bracket : 6 Material: Brass
Comments:
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Name: Shelf Bracket D
Description:
Number of parts: 5 Maximum Load per Bracket (kg): 18
Cost (Euros)/bracket : 12 Material: Aluminium
Comments:
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Name: Shelf Bracket F
Description:
Number of parts: 4 Maximum Load per Bracket (kg): 8
Cost (Euros)/bracket : 4 Material: Aluminium
Comments:
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Name: Shelf Bracket G
Description:
Number of parts: 4 Maximum Load per Bracket (kg): 6
Cost (Euros)/bracket : 2 Material: Stainless Steel
Comments:
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Meeting Notes
Department of Industrial and
Manufacturing Engineering University of
Malta
Two grooves must be punched
Features which go into groove
2 Screws are required
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Welded part
Overall consensus that this bracket is rather simple to fabricate
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The form of this bracket is rather difficult to fabricate
Screw into wallAdjustment screw
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Profile easy to manufacture
Welded parts, intricate surfaces
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Extremely easy to fabricate
Screw - attachment to wall
Usually made out of plastic. Cheap to fabricate but…
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we had issues related to cracking associated with fatigue.
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This mechanism is easy to assemble…However very difficult to disassemble.
The force required to be
the position of the clips is
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exerted in order to change
quite large
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People
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Manufacturing Engineering University of
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