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  1. GregLocock

    Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part XIV

    So +2 degrees in 2006 compared with 1986 according to the expert, or +0.25 deg in fact. +3 degrees by 2020, or +0.45 in fact.
  2. GregLocock

    Theoretical Question - Planar Truss Problem

    You've drawn a bicycle wheel, so the empirical answer is yes.
  3. GregLocock

    Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part XIV

    Better wait 28 years. Or at least 13.
  4. GregLocock

    Follow Up

    That's why they have a preload in the springs. Adding a check strap to the rear axle will increase the tendency to spin if the inside wheel lifts, as it suddenly overloads the outer wheel which can then break away. So the proper solution is to design a 2 stage coil spring with a soft initial...
  5. GregLocock

    Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part XIV

    How is a year of extreme weather (if that was the case) anything to do with climate? The IPCC defines climate as a statistical description of the average weather over a period of time, typically 30 years. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admits having “low confidence”...
  6. GregLocock

    Adams/Matlab: Setting Up and Modifying Design Variables in Matlab

    MUX is the green block on your diagram. End of conversation.
  7. GregLocock

    Adams/Matlab: Setting Up and Modifying Design Variables in Matlab

    The signal from the MUX needs to include k1 and k2. Is there not a tutorial on this?
  8. GregLocock

    Follow Up

    In theory it seems a good idea, sometimes in practice it is the other way round. It can be useful to force a sudden change in weight transfer across the axle in limit handling events.
  9. GregLocock

    Defining joints

    For advanced woowoo I suggest the FEA forum, the altair ones don't get much traffic.
  10. GregLocock

    Balancing large 8600hp electric motor with fluid film bearings

    I have done the non indexed method as an exercise but since all of my data is triggered the index method is more robust and easier.
  11. GregLocock

    Rogue Climatologists

    Any geo engineering project will create winners and losers. An example of this is cloud seeding, which has threatened to start wars in SE Asia, and in Tasmania for example is used to increase rainfall in the catchment for the hydro dams, at the expense of causing reduced rainfall in the...
  12. GregLocock

    Follow Up

    Professionals design springs for road use such that they have a minimum preload of X with the wheels at full droop, ie on a 2 post hoist. Amateurs don't, they worry about powder coating.
  13. GregLocock

    Balancing large 8600hp electric motor with fluid film bearings

    In theory it doesn't matter where the trial weights are located on each plane relative to the other plane, I think. But i haven't done this in a long time(25 years). I'd have thought so long as all measurements and locations were referenced to a single shaft reference marker it would be OK.
  14. GregLocock

    Adams/Matlab: Setting Up and Modifying Design Variables in Matlab

    It isn't sent to simulink it is a co sim with simulink. Is there not a tutorial on this?
  15. GregLocock

    Balancing large 8600hp electric motor with fluid film bearings

    You do the 2 single plane balances by record the vibration or velocity at both planes. Same number of runs just more data. Maths is here https://www.eng-tips.com/threads/diy-crankshaft-balancing-with-an-oscilloscope.511892/#post-8933361
  16. GregLocock

    Adams/Matlab: Setting Up and Modifying Design Variables in Matlab

    Loosely speaking you need to define the various parameters as design variables in adams, and then pass values to them from your simulink.
  17. GregLocock

    Balancing large 8600hp electric motor with fluid film bearings

    2 plane balancing is more complex than 2 1 plane balances, as you need to consider the influence coefficients from plane1 to plane 2 and vice versa.
  18. GregLocock

    Balancing large 8600hp electric motor with fluid film bearings

    Frankly I'd be calling in a large motor balancing guy. Did you 2 plane balance? Since automotive crankshafts are oil bearings I don't remember any problems balancing them. Depending on the natural frequencies of the rotor you may be operating above the whirl speed. Certainly possible...
  19. GregLocock

    Learning NX and building car jack

    P1-8 is three orthogonal views of one part. I assume you are supposed to create a solid model of it.
  20. GregLocock

    Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part XIV

    2024 numbers haven't been collated yet In 2023 65% of China's electricity was fossil fuel. Coal usage is increasing, not falling

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