Week 8 Worm Gear Challenge

Worm Gear 

Objective: 

to perform a transient structural analysis of a worm gear and to determine the equivalent stress, equivalent strain and total deformation. 

Procedure: 

first, we need to import the model and assign material for the geometry, We need to open it in space claim in order to check whether any abnormalities in the geometry. after checking we need to update in mechanical module . 

After importing we need to give appropriate names for the component, after that we need to further assign contact regions. The contact should be frictionless. 

We need to give a revolute joint for the gear as well As for the worm gear. 

then we need to generate mesh of appropriate element size. 

in analysis setting the number of steps will be 15 with 50 degree increase in each step. 

Results: 

Total deformation 

Equivalent stress 

Equivalent strain  

Contact status 

Conclusion: 

There is an Equivalent stress in the worm gear model. Total deformation is about 7.26 when worm gear is rotated about its axis of rotation.