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Abstract

A fixture is designed and built to hold, support and locate every component to ensure that it is machined with accuracy. The recent trends in the industry are towards adopting the hydraulic and pneumatic techniques because it saves time and machining cost gets reduced. By using computer-aided fixture design technique the designer creates a model of fixture and carried out finite element analysis on fixture model by considering given boundary condition before getting it manufactures and can see deficiency and could make modification accordingly without getting it manufactures, which saves a great amount of money and time. In this project, the same methodology is adopted for designing analyzing the designed Trunnion hydraulic fixture. The Trunnion hydraulic fixture is designed for Master Jaw of the chuck to perform milling, undercut and drilling operations using Vertical machining centers. Computer-aided fixture design of fixture assembly is carried out using SOLIDWORKS 2017 software and Finite element analysis of fixture and cylinder block is carried out using ANSYS Static workbench software.