I was able to use the Wheel I made for a lab for my Numerical Methods Class. The lab involved doing finite element analysis on an object. A simple explanation is that the piece is broken down into tiny tiny pieces and those pieces are analyzed. This was done in Practical Unigraphics NX7.5. For my lab I started out with the basics, doing an analysis to see how the wheel would hold up to gravity(Setting the material for the piece to be ABS). Ultimately I wanted to see how the rest of the weight of the body of the figure would affect the connecting pieces as well as the wheels. Based upon the Analysis, the wheel should have no problem supporting the weight :D
Here are a few pictures from it. If you want to check out my report let me know... I got a 95 on it :D
While the bar looks like it deformed quite a bit, it was only displacing by 0.000173 mm! A simple bar was used for this.
In order to solve this, there were over 500,000 Equations being solved at once! There was minimal displacement due to gravity for the rigid body that simulates the rest of the figure.
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