UDC 621 FEA BASED EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF ROLLER CONVEYOR CHAIN LINK PLATES AND ANALYSIS OF PIN © Bhaskar D. Gaikwad SVERI’s College of Engineering, Pandharpur, Solapur, Maharashtra, India Dr Prashant M. Pawar SVERI’s College of Engineering, Pandharpur, Solapur, Maharashtra, India Abstract. <...> Chain is the most important element of the industrial processes required for transmitting power and conveying of materials. <...> As these chains operate under various forces, failure of chain assembly is the major problem. <...> The scope of this paper is to study about uncertainties in heat treatments and effect of same on the stress strain curve and mechanical properties of chain link plates. <...> Furthermore, as lot of work has already been done in other components of chain, in this paper the focus has been narrowed down to Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of specific component like pin. <...> INTRODUCTION Failure of engineering components can occur because of varieties of reasons. <...> But, majority of them can ultimately be attributed to defects of various types, introduced mostly inadvertently during various stages of manufacturing of the component. <...> In this chain, processing of material with requisite microstructure and acceptable defects distribution is an integral part. <...> Hollingworth and Hills [2] worked on forces in a heavy-duty drive chain during articulation. <...> The analysis differentiates between the two types of chain bearing open end leading or open end trailing and the results show that the force characteristics in each are significantly different. <...> Experimental verification of the chain link tension is good. <...> Miyazawa and Satoh [3] developed a method of manufacturing a link plate for a roller chain which results in minimization of the link plate deformation, a bending failure generated by the interference between a warped link plate and press fitted pin. <...> Moster and Ledvina [4] developed a roller chain assembly by adding material to the location on the link plate face where fatigue failure is most likely to occur. <...> The material increases the strength of the link plate, allowing for the use of inner links having larger bushings. <...> Initial research on chain [5, 6] was focused on kinematics and dynamics study of chain Fig. 1. <...> Stresses on the pin and sprocket combination. <...> An analysis to determine the effects of pitch difference <...>