Ball Bearing

I designed this component in my Machine Design class in under graduation but never made a CAD file of it. Finally, I succeeded in doing this and as a bonus created a short video on it's motion by putting a rotary motor to the inner ring with a 10 RPM constant speed. I hope you enjoy this.

 

 

Explicit Dynamics -ANSYS- Impact Attenuator Crash Simulation

Its been quite some time since my last post. But nevertheless, I have got something amazing to share in this post.
I have recently been working on my final year engineering project which involves designing an Impact Attenuator for passenger vehicles. As it is my final year project worth 6 credits, the work needed to be convincing.
So, I got to know about ANSYS analysis software for obtaining worthwhile results for my project and thus began the most arduous month of my life with 3-4 hours of calculations running on the PC, frequent hair pulling and consumption of head ache pills.

But finally, after 28 days of torture got the desired result.

So here, I have shared some pics of the analysis and a link to the video on youtube. Enjoy!

P.S. Leave a comment for any queries.

Basic Setup - Front View

Basic Setup - Isometric View

Deformation 1 - Front View

 

Deformation 1 - Isometric View

Deformation 2 - Front View

Deformation 2 - Isometric View