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Reverse Engineering Ants for Robotics

Submitted by Simpleware on

New research is emerging out of a project where Ohio State University used our software to reconstruct the anatomy of an ant neck. In this project, micro-CT scans of an ant neck were reconstructed using Simpleware software and exported as a mesh for analysis in Abaqus.

BCs of a rotating crankshaft in abaqus

Submitted by danijaem on

Hello,

I'm facing this problem with Abaqus: a crankshaft rotates with a constant speed. A varying force is applied on the surface of the piston rod. The inertial forces must be considered-> Dynamic Explicit. I predefine a rotating velocity for the whole model (Predefined Field). The problem is that I don't know how to apply the BCs of the ball bearings. I have applied fix BCs (displacements) at the Initial Speed and then, for the Dynamic Explicit, I have applied a rotating velocity for those BCs. I think this is incorrect at all.