Design and Fabrication of A Multi-Purpose, Portable and Foldable Ladder

摘要

This paper is based on the design and fabrication of a multipurpose, portable, compact and foldable ladder that serves multiple purposes, overcoming the limitations of already existing ladder designs in the market. The ladder so formed by the modification proposed by us will not only perform as a simple fixed climbing ladder, but will also provide various utilities such as platform, orchard ladder, step ladder and many more. The whole project involved various methods like conceptualisation, analysis, market survey, simulation, fabrication and testing. Testing was carried out to ensure that the product is functional and can meet the objectives successfully. Analytical calculations were done for safe load and this calculation was used for proposed frame of Multi-Purpose ladder. Further, this design is again optimized using SOLIDWORKS. Final design is fabricated in the Mechanical Workshop of Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur.