b11 Motorcycle-Crank

Z88AURORA ® EXAMPLE MANUAL:
Example 11: motorcycle crank

(Tetrahedron No. 16 with 10 nodes)
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The task is, to calculate a crankshaft for a single cylinder-motorcycle. The total load from
the piston is -5000 N. The mesh was created, using Pro/MECHANICA. The special on this
example is the application of the boundary conditions. That is pretty tricky.
Therefore, a datum point at one front of the crankshaft will be created. It will be used to
lock the displacement along the z-direction.
Figure 1: Pro/MECHANICA: the example as 3D model
The ball bearings are placed at the shoulders. They do not lock crankshaft’s torque. The
side of the shoulders will only be fixed in x- and y direction.
Figure 2: Pro/MECHANICA: application of the load
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The total load of -5000 N is located on the whole surface of the crank pin. Figure 2 shows
the boundary conditions in the 3D model. The mesh consists of quadratic tetrahedrons.
Figure 3: Pro/MECHANICA: meshed crank shaft
1. Create new project
Create a new projekt, use .
2. Import nastran structure
Import the example file z88.nas from "..\Z88AuroraVx\docu\examples\import\b11”. The

complete structure with the boundary conditions will be loaded.
Only the material assignment is removed to keep the internal material database of
Z88Aurora consistent.
1. Use the button "Import" and the context menu appears on the right side.
2. Choose nastran file  Dialog will open
3. Change to the example folder, as indicated above
4. Choose "Tetrahedron“
5. Start impot with “OK”
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3. Material assignment
Use the material from the material database Z88Aurora.

1. Click the "Preprocessor" Icon  and the context menu appears on the right side.
2. Click  Material database opens

3. Select the material "Structural steel S235JR" in the material database.
4. assigns the material to the part

5. Close menu
4. Start calculation
You can select as in the other examples the Pardiso solver or use the Sparse Matrix
Iteration or .
5. Create new project
Create a new projekt, use .
6. Import STL-Geometrie
Now import not the whole structure data, but only the geomtry data, from the stl file
located in "..\Z88AuroraVx\docu\examples\import\b11".
7. Create mesh
Mesh with “Tetgen” and quadratic tetrahedrons. Use for maximum length “7”.
8. Change mesh
By the creation of additional mesh rules, you can assign various meshes. Saved is always
the most recently mesh. If the mesh is changed after the application of boundary
conditions, they were deleted and have to be recreated again.
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Figure 4: create several mesh rules
9. Node picking – Surface picking
The shaft shoulder should be locked in X and Y direction. Therefore you select a node
and then click "surface". Since middle nodes can not be used, only one node of the two
edges of the shoulder must be selected. If after selecting “surface”, the desired area is
not highlighted, try using the other edge and vary the value of the detection angle with
the slider. Create a set of two marks. Proceed as in Example 4 step 9 before heading.
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Figure 5: node picking with “Surface", top: desired result, bottom: false marking
Select the crank pin also by picking a node and click “surface”. Then create a set. The
selection and deselection of nodes, see example one "Picking Options”. Finally crate a
set, containig one node in the center of the end side of the crankshaft, which is then
used to lock the z direction.
10. Constraints
1. Set: Boundary condition type "Displacement", Direction X + Y, Value "0", Name

"fix_XY"
2. Set: Boundary condition type " Displacement ", Direction Z, Value "0", Name "fix_Z"
3. Set: Boundary condition type " Projected surface load", Richtung Y, Wert "-5000",
Name "load"
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Figure 6: Boundary conditions: crank shaft
11. Material assignment
Select the material "Structural steel S235JR" in the material database.
12. Start calculation
Start the calculation with the “Pardiso solver".
13. Output
Figure 7: Stresses at corner nodes, deflected crank shaft, scale 60

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Z88AURORA ® EXAMPLE MANUAL:

Example 11: motorcycle crank

Figure 1: Pro/MECHANICA: the example as 3D model

Figure 2: Pro/MECHANICA: application of the load

Figure 3: Pro/MECHANICA: meshed crank shaft

1. Create new project

Create a new projekt, use .

2. Import nastran structure

Import the example file z88.nas from "..\Z88AuroraVx\docu\examples\import\b11”. The

Use the material from the material database Z88Aurora.

2. Click  Material database opens

4. assigns the material to the part

5. Create new project

Create a new projekt, use .

Figure 4: create several mesh rules

9. Node picking – Surface picking

1. Set: Boundary condition type "Displacement", Direction X + Y, Value "0", Name

Figure 6: Boundary conditions: crank shaft

11. Material assignment

Select the material "Structural steel S235JR" in the material database.

12. Start calculation

Start the calculation with the “Pardiso solver".

Figure 7: Stresses at corner nodes, deflected crank shaft, scale 60

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