What is the ideal tool for this case?

Henry26

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

 

Adriano_Koga

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.

Henry26

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

Adriano_Koga

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.