Mechanical Event Simulation with Linear Material Models

Software In Action
Click to View	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Helicopter Floor Mr. Gabriel Ayala used Mechanical Event Simulation to analyze the effects of dropping a 300-lb mass, representing a box of tools, onto the floor of a helicopter. The toolbox was allowed to free fall from a height of 3 feet before impacting a section of the floor. The resulting deflections and stresses were evaluated to determine the suitability of the design.
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Pinball Drop Target A pinball machine's drop target assembly was studied by Stern Pinball, Inc. Engineers performed a Mechanical Event Simulation to determine the target's stresses and distortions after impact with the steel ball.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of the Mountains and Clouds Mobile Engineer Keith Orgeron of T&T Engineering, Inc. verified the behavior of a typical motion cycle of the existing Mountains and Clouds mobile, located in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. The vibration at the end of the cycle is caused by the impact in the failed support connection. This analysis helped determine the loading for a new, redesigned hanger connection.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a 400 kV Transmission Tower A 400 kV Y-tower for electrical power transmission was analyzed by West Coast Engineering as part of research into new engineering methods. Mechanical Event Simulation was used to determine the dynamic effects of a wire breaking during a high wind load. Both the complete tower assembly with electrical lines and a detailed model of the tower base were studied.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Protection Net Engineers at Selantic Industrier A.S. performed a drop test simulation to determine the limits of a protection net for a new ELF offshore oil platform in the North Sea.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Peaucellier Cell This Mechanical Event Simulation of a mechanism used in a forming process and designed by a French engineer illustrates the Peaucellier cell during the critical time of initial machine startup.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Pressure Gauge This Bourdon tube pressure gauge utilizes kinematic elements and surface-to-surface contact elements between the gauge's gears to replicate the motion of the indicator needle as pressure is increased within the tube.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of Tin Snips In this Mechanical Event Simulation of a pair of tin snips, directly imported from CAD, the worst-case stresses were determined by simulating a case where the operator attempts to cut steel that is thicker than the rated capacity of the tool.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Planetary Gear System In this Mechanical Event Simulation of a planetary gear system, surface-to-surface contact is used to drive the motion of the 4 planet gears as the sun gear in the center is rotated.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Floor Jack This Mechanical Event Simulation of a hydraulic floor jack, shows the stresses over time, as the jack lifts a load. Kinematic elements, actuator elements and multiple load curves were all used in this simulation.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Backhoe Loader This Mechanical Event Simulation of a backhoe loader used kinematic and actuator element technology to determine the stresses that develop in the bucket control arm during its normal range of motion.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of Motion Simulator This motion simulator ride used actuator elements to replicate the movement of computer-controlled hydraulic cylinders that move the ride through its range of motion.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of Plane Landing Gear This landing gear mechanism uses Mechanical Event Simulation and actuator elements to replicate the movement of the plane's hydraulic cylinders.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of Car Suspension This car suspension system illustrates the dynamic stresses that develop in the coil spring as the car travels on a rough road.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Compound Bow The performance of this compound bow was optimized using Mechanical Event Simulation through a study of its damped response after arrow release. The graphing utility was used in this analysis to embed the plot of displacement over time.	56K   100K 250K
	Earthquake Analysis of a Windmill West Coast Engineering Group Ltd. used Mechanical Event Simulation to verify that the support column of this windmill could withstand the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Tape Drive Engineers at Hewlett-Packard performed a Mechanical Event Simulation, using shell and kinematic elements with surface-to-surface contact, on a new back-up tape drive design to optimize the tape path stability in order to maximize the durability of the back-up tape.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Human Eye Researchers at the Tufts University School of Medicine used Mechanical Event Simulation to determine the peak stresses generated in the human eye as it undergoes a rapid point-to-point rotation of 30 degrees. This research could lead to improved techniques for the repair and prevention of retinal detachments.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Toggle Clamp Surface-to-surface contact and kinematic elements facilitated this Mechanical Event Simulation of a toggle clamp to determine the maximum stresses during a clamping process. The model originated in the Rhinoceros CAD package.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Dental Descaler This ultrasonic dental descaler, created by Morgan Electro Ceramics, Inc. in Autodesk Inventor, was analyzed with Mechanical Event Simulation to evaluate the cleaning action of the tip for varying tip geometries, piezostack dimensions and forcing frequencies.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Tanker Truck Hydrodynamic elements were used to account for the changing inertia of the liquid in this Mechanical Event Simulation of a tanker truck rolling over a curb.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Shockwave Through Geomedia Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines used Mechanical Event Simulation to study how shockwaves generated from plastic explosives propagate through geomedia such as rock. This research could lead to improved blasting techniques for mining and bomb-resistant concrete designs for military and anti-terrorism applications.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Flyball Governor This Mechanical Event Simulation of a flyball governor during start-up conditions demonstrates the principle of conservation of energy where the kinetic energy of the rotating masses is stored as potential energy in the elastic spring.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of Garage Door Surface-to-surface contact was used to keep the rollers in the tracks and an actuator element was used for the chain drive mechanism in this Mechanical Event Simulation of a garage door.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of Actuator Clamp This actuator clamp illustrates the ability to combine a kinematic study with a dynamic stress analysis using Mechanical Event Simulation.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of Amusement Ride This dragster amusement ride shows the stresses that occur in the dragster's chassis during hard acceleration and braking.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of Vehicle Rollover A military vehicle cab experiences a rollover accident. See the stresses that result when the cab falls against a horizontal impact wall.	56K   100K 250K
	Dynamic Loading of Aluminum Bar Mechanical Event Simulation was used to demonstrate the vast difference between static and dynamic loading.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Vane Pump This Mechanical Event Simulation of a vane pump during dry run conditions, used surface-to-surface contact to simulate the movement and stresses of the vanes as they slide in and out of the slotted rotor which is eccentrically mounted in the pump body.	56K   100K 250K
	Mechanical Event Simulation of a Robot Effector This Mechanical Event Simulation of a robot effector uses kinematic elements, surface-to-surface contact between the gears and a rotational actuator element to move the robotic grippers.	56K   100K 250K