What is the ideal tool for this case?
Hello everyone,
Could somebody help me with a tip for this case?
I have a case with gears, axles and rollers. In your opinios which is the best tool for stabilize the rollers? As shown below, there are a lot of rollers, but I don´t know how to stabilize all of them. Should I use spring element with low stiffness in each roller or some kind of macro to represent the rollers? Any idea?
I´ve hiden one gear to see better how it works.
Thank you in advance,
Luiz
Answers
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What kind of analysis you need to perform here?
Depending on what you need, and for how long you want to run that, i would go for explicit analysis (in OptiStruct or Radioss). It would handle much better the contacts.
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Adriano A. Koga_21884 said:
What kind of analysis you need to perform here?
Depending on what you need, and for how long you want to run that, i would go for explicit analysis (in OptiStruct or Radioss). It would handle much better the contacts.
Hello @Adriano A. Koga, thank you for your reply.
It´ll be a static linear analysis with Optistruct. My main doubt is about how to stabilize the rollers, presented in red in the picture. As you can see there insn´t any kind of part that restrict the axial movement.
In this case, which tool should I use to stabilize the rollers?
Thank you,
Luiz
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Henry26 said:
Hello @Adriano A. Koga, thank you for your reply.
It´ll be a static linear analysis with Optistruct. My main doubt is about how to stabilize the rollers, presented in red in the picture. As you can see there insn´t any kind of part that restrict the axial movement.
In this case, which tool should I use to stabilize the rollers?
Thank you,
Luiz
for the axial movemente, you could simplify it and add a constraint in the axial direction only.
But again, depending on what you really need to evaluate, there are several other simplifications possible.
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