A Computer-Aided-Design Technique for Design of a Six-Section Elliptic Tire-Building Drum

Abstract

In this investigation, a computer-aided-design method for a six-section elliptic tire-building drum is presented instead of the traditional geometric construction. The mathematical formulation of the proposed CAD technique is discussed in some detail. The efficient recursive equality-constrained quadratic programming method for solving constrained optimization problems is introduced to synthesize the mechanism of the drum. One practical problem is solved to illustrate the method.