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The KUKA robotic arm is used for laser cladding, repair and maintenance of parts or engine components. The KUKA robot sprays metal powders on the testing substrate or component to be repaired or cladded and solidified after melting. However, during this process, not all metallic powders is utilized and as such, some were wasted. About 40% approximately are wasted for a given operation. Due to the wastage and cost of these powders, four tables were developed to recover the wasted powders, but only one was selected due to the convenience and ease of powder retrieval. The selected concept which is Concave Hollow Table was put through a stress analysis with MSST and MDET failure criteria and the maximum displacement analysis obtained was 1.91902 mm on a high load of 200 kg that was used.
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Erinosho, M., Angula, E., Nangolo, F., Shaanika, S. (2021). Design of Specimen Table for Laser Deposition Operation. In: Awang, M., Emamian, S.S. (eds) Advances in Material Science and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3641-7_3
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