b11 Motorcycle-Crank
b11 Motorcycle-Crank
b11 Motorcycle-Crank
is a registered trademark (Nr. 30 2009 064 238) of Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Rieg
Example manual
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.
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.
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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.
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3. Material assignment
4. Start calculation
You can select as in the other examples the Pardiso solver or use the Sparse Matrix
Iteration or .
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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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
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13. Output