An integrating finite element method and multibody simulation for drive systems analysis

Abstract

© 2017, Chulalongkorn University 1. All rights reserved. Roller chain and sprockets are an important component of the drive system in production lines of any industries. Many problems which concerned for damage of roller chain and sprockets would break down the producing process. To understand every failure behavior might be used a long time of experience in production lines. Furthermore, some phenomena of failure cases for roller chain and sprockets were unpredictable by an analytic method. This research aimed to propose installed cases of the roller chain and sprocket by the modeling technique. The new method for simulation of drive system was employed to analyze roller chain and a sprocket. The finite element method was used to simulate the behavior of parts that might be damaged by integrating with the multi-body system of rigid parts in the driving system. The integrating simulation would explain any installed cases of roller chain and a sprocket distinctively. Particularly, simulation results in many forms the roller chain which wrapped a sprocket would be good examples for an engineering study and design of drive system in a further work.