Cifa

Cifa S.p.A. is a leader in the production of vehicles, facilities and systems for prepackaging, transporting, distributing and pouring concrete.

Dott. Ing. Gianluca Massaccesi was involved in the design and structural verification of the new line of pumps for concrete that were being developed by Cifa.

In order to dimention and optimize the articolation performance, a kinematic simulation software was developed. Thanks to this procedure the envolved rotoidal couplings could be verified according to the specifications reported in the reference standards.

The verification procedure based on the science of construction was supported by verification methodologies based on the intensive use of finite elements.

With the software I-Deas it was possible to carry out FEM models of the structurally significative parts, and then assemblying them in assembly FEM models for each critical configuration.

Furthermore, a procedure was developed to facilitate the construction of the sheet metal parts completely associative to the base model. This made it possible to quickly introduce and try the variants of the project which were considered necessary.