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Finite Element Analysis to Predict Displacement and Velocity Distribution in Spring-Loaded Perpetual Motion Machine

For more than four centuries, many inventors have suggested remarkable methods of getting energy from nothing thereby violating the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics. This study designed, investigated and analyzed a spring-loaded perpetual motion machine. One dimensional governing equation for spring displacement was solved numerically using finite element (FE) method of solution and the power-out rating was calculated analytically. For displacement distribution in the spring length reveals how displacement is linearly distributed between 0 and 30m with length, ranging between 0 and 0.30m, using FE method; the obtained results revealed displacement distribution was linear, uniform and steady, which implied steady spring rate or displacement rate. Evaluated result showed that on applying a force of 27N on the flywheel, to set the machine in motion, generated a torque of 4Nm which is transmitted to the crankshaft. The resolved force from this torque is 100N with a corresponding 25Nm work output. This result shows that the machine is a PMM1, as the energy in is less than energy out continuously.