Chain drive

[a01111]

Hi. I'm trying to simulate chain drive in Adams. When I plot the chain tension it's either 0 all the time or some value. So I can see that it doesn't "separate" slack and tension side at all and i don't know how to define it? Here are some photos of what I defined in the software. Everything is the same for the sprockets except the position in space. I defined torque and rotational velocity on the driver sprocket.

 

[GregLocock]

I suggest you check all of these threads out

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[a01111]

Thank you so much. Do you have any suggestion where the problem might be? because I'm not sure where it is out of all the sources you just sent me? I know that tension force on the slack side should be 0 and on the tension side it should have desired value but in my simulations the forces are the same on the both sides and i don't know why. Here is the model.

 

[GregLocock]

This is what I can tell from screenshots: 0 What load do you have on the output end?

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[a01111]

None. I thought that torque on driver sprocket was enough. So do you think I should put same torque as on driver sprocket on the driven sprocket or the one that I calculated (which is bigger than the one on the driver sprocket)?

 

[GregLocock]

Try drawing a free body diagram of what you have. /out/

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