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Rubber products are important and took up about 20% of Malaysia’s total exports since year 2000. Due to this, it is necessary to improve the quantity of natural rubber that been produced. However, the number of skilled rubber tappers are getting lower nowadays, and the available manual tools are unable to cope with the market demand. In this study, a new concept of intelligent rubber tapping machine (RTM) is introduced as a solution to this problem. The designed RTM using rotational cutting tool can complete the tapping process in faster time with minimum labor contact. By using ANSYS v20 software, the RTM structural vibration in terms of modal, frequency response and transient analyses are investigated. From the study, the first sixth modes of the structural have been determined in the range of 0–100 Hz, and the most dominant mode resulted at 54.88 Hz. Even though the running speed of motor is set at 3000 RPM (50 Hz), the resonance does not occur since the disturbances during operation has shifted the transient vibrational peak to about 100 Hz with considerable low amplitude of 1.506 m/s2. Hence, the proposed RTM is applicable for the real tapping process.
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The authors would like to thank Universiti Sains Malaysia for providing the research funding through RUI grant 1001.PMEKANIK.8014129.
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Chong, Z.C., Ali, W.M.A., Mazlan, A.Z.A. (2022). Structural Vibration Study of a New Concept Intelligent Rubber Tapping Machine. In: Ali Mokhtar, M.N., Jamaludin, Z., Abdul Aziz, M.S., Maslan, M.N., Razak, J.A. (eds) Intelligent Manufacturing and Mechatronics. SympoSIMM 2021. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8954-3_29
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