Computer Aided System for Database Chain Drive Design and Drafting

The study reviewed the procedure involved in the design of chain drive in mechanical system. Machine design and its fabrication hardly do without chain drive system. It involved some calculations using some mathematical model. Frequently, computation makes the designing procedure time consuming, drudgery and error does occur. To avoid drudgery in calculations, save time and make computation errors reduced, software with database was developed for all computations required in chain drive system. This study serves as aid to designers and teaching aids to learners of chain drive system in machine design. The programming language used was C – sharp which was tested using questions and illustrative example picked from a standard textbook and journal. The performance of the developed model was found satisfactory, capable of calculating all parameters required in chain drive system. These calculated design values were used to draft the system for factory production.