September 2020
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A groundnut roasting machine has been developed with a roasting chamber made of steel sheet of AISI 1015. The chamber will be heated up to 105°C for the roasting process to occur. This paper is focused on the thermo-structural analysis of the chamber to ascertain whether the material can withstand the stress generated in the process. Thermal structural analysis is the application of the finite element method (FEM) to calculate the temperature distribution within a solid structure, which is due to the thermal inputs (heat loads), outputs (heat loss), and thermal barriers (thermal contact resistance) in a design. SolidWorks 2019 thermal and static simulation tool was used for the investigation. The maximum von-mises stress obtained is 317 MPa which is within safe working stress of the material.