Week 1 Spur Gear Challenge

Aim - We will perform spur gear simulation with different types of materials for gears and see how stress plots and maximum stress point changes.

Procedure-

1. We will import the model and and assign materials to both the gears and and proceed ahead with simulations

2. In contacts we will give revolute joint to both the gears and frictional contact with 0 frictional coefficient.

3. In analysis settings we will proceed with 6 steps and provide min and maximum time step 0.0005 and 1 repectively.

4. then we will provide joint load as roatation to one of the gear and moment to other as per the video and proceed ahead with simulations.

Conclusions-

1. In findings we get the following:

Stainless steel max stress: 371.69 MPa

Cast Iron max stress : 298.16 MPa

Bronze max stress : 296.74 MPa

Hence we conclude, stainless steel can withstand stresses better than cast iron and bronze.

Simulation files : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TXfSk6vXMKdiyRzoQ1anHS2U8t1r1Arp/view?usp=share_link