Design and Fabrication of an Automatic Suspended Single Sliding Door

Abstract

An automatic suspended single sliding door was designed and
fabricated using materials sourced locally. The use of an automatic
door can be made to solve most of the challenges associated with
manually operated doors. The sliding door was tested after
fabrication. The system was certified to have functioned properly as
desired. The design values of the parameters were compared with
the actual values measured from the system while in operation. The
percentage deviation of the actual values from the design values of
parameters like door opening time, door delay time, door maximum
velocity, door minimum velocity, and the total time taken for the
door to complete one operational cycle are 7.69%, 3.15%, 3.53%,
14.89%, and 6.51%. The deviations of the actual values from the
design values are negligible. Thus, the design and fabrication of a
functional suspended single sliding automatic door system was
successfully executed.