Rolling Contact in Ansys Workbench

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Well, foiled at my own game.

This sounds like a fun project and a complete waste of time. Why do you need to this since it has already been done by the bearing manufacturers.

Contact SKF or get one of their catalogues, all the information you need has already been recorded. All you have to do is select a suitable bearing for your load and speed and do not exceed the rated loads and speeds and you will at achieve the L10 life of the bearing. Less load and speed will allow the bearing to last well beyond the L10 life.

I have modeled and calculated hertzian contact stress for many different applications but I would never consider doing it for a bearing since I don't get paid to do someone else's job that has already been done countless times.

here is screenshot of a spreadsheet I made for this purpose:

Sir, I appreciate your time and response but I am yet in the learning phase of the software. I want to pursue this as my term project and the only problem I am facing is creating a "rolling contact" which I am unable to find in any tutorial on the internet. Once I get through this initial stage, I might think of other applications of the same and further innovations which someone else has not done already.

I would be really thankful if someone who has worked on something like this (a wheel on a track, or bearings) can guide me as to what parameters I should set in order to get a rolling contact, and on what platform should I work on (static structural- where bodies are flexible but no motion, or rigid dynamics- where motion achieved is sliding but bodies are rigid, or explicit dynamics-which does not give stresses and deformations).
I have tried everything, but the result is always a sliding contact or no motion at all between the bodies. It will be of great help if you could throw some light on it. Thanks

ahh, OK. Well since you have tried everything. The next thing to do is to call or email:

http://www.ansys.com/About+ANSYS/ContactsLocations

which is ANSYS WORKBENCH and ask a techy there if such a thing as you are attempting can be accomplished using this platform and if so, where can you find a tutorial that can teach you how to do it.

I use Solid Works so I can be of no further help to you.

Good Luck!

NASA has developed bearings with 60NiTi. In the webinar they produced, the opportunity to ask questions was offered. My question concerned VFD eddy current effects, The Bottom line here is NASA offers a vast amount of technical information to be shared with the public.

The key is, this material 60NiTi actually has temporary deformation.

Perhaps they can advise on what direction you should take.

https://technology.grc.nasa.gov/tech-detail-coded.php?cid=GR-0101