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Which constraint should I use on my FEA?

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Henry26

Automotive
Oct 13, 2014
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Hello everyone!

I'm performing a finite element analysis with a pair of gears and another component around this pair of gears. This system is named as "planetary gears". My model is simplified, just to see how will be the behavior of the system, I'm using the software Hypermesh with the solver OptiStruct. My question is, which degrees of freedom on "FACE 1" and "FACE 2" should I constraint to rotate "GEAR A" and "GEAR B" around the axis X.

Degres of freedom:
Displacement: x, y and z
Rotation: x, y and z

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Thanks so much in advance.
Henry
 
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