Transient Structural Analysis on Universal Joint(ANSYS WORKBENCH)

Aim :

To perform transient structural analysis on a universal joint with spring for three different given materials and obtain the Equivalent stress and Total Deformation using Ansys Workbench.

FILE : UNIVERSAL_JOINT

Materials Used :

Structural Steel :

Stainless Steel :

Titanium Alloy :

Procedure :

1. Open Ansys Workbench and choose Transient Analysis. Import the Universal Joint model into the Geometry.
   
   
   
2. Delete all the available contacts, and create joints for required faces. Apply body to ground type fixed joint for the end face of the spring and
   
   
   
   
3. Body to body Revolute joints for each indicidual faces of the joint.
   
   
   
   
   
4. For Meshing, Element size is taken 2mm with Adaptive Sizing set to Off and Smoothing into Medium to get refined mesh for accurate result.
   
   
   
   
5. In the analysis settings, Time step of 0.1s is given to all the 5 Steps keeping rest of the settings as default. Change everythng to 'Yes" in the Output Controls.
   
   

Result :

CASE 1 : Structural Steel

Equivalent Stress
Total Deformation

CASE 2 : Stainless Steel

Equivalent Stress
Total Deformation

Case 3 : Titanium Alloy

Equivalent Stress
Total Deformation

Material	Equivalent Stress (MPa)	Total Deformation(mm)
Structural Steel	1354.6	38.637
Stainless Steel	1311.6	38.637
Titanium Alloy	663.85	38.637

Conclusion :

It can be observed that the max total deformation experienced is the same for all the 3 different material while the max equivalent stress is higher in the case of Structural Steel Universal Joint and the lowest for the Titanium Alloy Universal Joint.