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The Bearing Housing Cap

 Part Details

Model Version: 8.0

Material: AISI 4130 steel, annealed at 865C

Yield Strength: 4.600e+08 Pa

Validation: June 14th 2023 -

By: Katherine Nguyen

Loading

 General Loading Information

Only applying Fz force

  • Only loading cases 2 and 4 are tested, since there is only one force and no moments being applied, these are the greatest magnitudes of force in both positive and negative Z

Loading Case #1:

Upright to LCA

3299.679523

2211.687897

-52.35353565

0

0

0

Loading Case #2:

Upright to LCA

-6369.683482

1976.269598

586.7106375

0

0

0

Only Fz force applied

Loading Case #3:

Upright to LCA

9264.244391

1816.545461

390.3182687

0

0

0

Loading Case #4:

Upright to LCA

-8143.498426

2526.632085

-847.4304298

0

0

0

Only Fz force applied

Loading Case #5:

Upright to LCA

11844.22222

2322.421431

-624.6421637

0

0

0

Fixtures

Mesh Refinement

Mesh Convergence & Results

Case #2: Forwards Left

Node Size

Max Stress

Location

1.5 mm

2.234e+07

1.25 mm

2.240e+07

 1 mm

 2.217e+07

 

 0.75 mm

 2.245e+07

 

 0.5 mm

 2.290e+07

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Case #4: Forwards Right

Node Size

Max Stress

Location

 1.5 mm

 3.391e+07

 

 1.25 mm

 3.406e+07

 

 1 mm

 3.374e+07

 

  0.75 mm

 3.401e+07

 

 0.5 mm

 3.480e+07

 

 More pics

Recommendations

The bearing housing cap passed both extreme cases, with the lowest safety factor (3.59) occurring in case #4.

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