Shaft rotation

[Dan_Margulius]

Hello All,

I would like to see my shaft rotate 🙂 

I am talking about MES and on the left side of the model i have Moment applied. 

On the right side of the picture i applied nodal displacement. The anlysis should run 2 sec.

Right now nothing happens on solve it just jumps to result and thats it.

 Thank you

Dan

[Dan_Margulius]

So it appears brick element cant rotate...

I changed the element type to pipe but now i get a very weird error:

Design scenario : 4
Analysis type : Mechanical Event Simulation (Accupack)
Start time : 2012/06/28-23:11:46

--- Get one active element part from fem file
--- 2 enabled L&C groups are defined
--- Get 61896 points defined in range [1, 62081] from fem file
Calling the Surface Topology Generator (tsx2tsy)...
tsx2tsy: Update part surface contact/bonding data (duration=0 sec.)
--- No mid-side node required
Set up FEM points and B.C. by connected elements...

In working on FEM file or outputting ESH file
Terminal Error: FEM2ESH#59
FEM_ERROR_NO_1D_ELEMENT 3
2012/06/28-23:11:46

What should I do?

Thanks

Dan

[Anonymous]

dan

how did you apply the moment load at the end of the shaft? 

[Dan_Margulius]

like that:

[Dan_Margulius]

But i can suppress it if needed for now. I may need it later because i want the shaft to rotate 300 rpm and apply bending moment in the same time. 

Thanks

Dan

[John_Holtz · Accepted solution]

Dan,

Please see the following page in the documentation: Simulation Mechanical > English > 2013 > Help > Simulation Mechanical > Mesh Models > Mesh Overview > Contact Pairs > Examples of Contact. This should answer your question about applying a moment to a brick model.