Brake Disc Rotational Speed

Altair Forum User · February 2019

Hi,

I'm trying to simulate a brake disc/rotor on Optistruct and i can't apply a rotational speed of 165 rad/s.

The idea is to apply a rotational speed in the disc and apply the load of the pads.

Sorry if it exists a thread with that info already, i wasn't able to find one.

I tried with RForce card, putting 165.0 in the 'A' parameter, but i don't think it workes because the disc expanded too much.

I've also tried with the SPC/SPCD pair and it didn't worked.

Anyone has an idea of how to do it?

Thanks in advance.

Rahul Rajan_21763 · February 2019

Centrifugal force can be applied on element sets.Please refer attached document.

Altair Forum User · February 2019

Hi,

Thanks for the fast answer.

My question is where to introduce the speed and in which units.

I've tried to put the speed in rps in the 'A' parameter but it completely destroyed the part.

Thank you.

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