FSU-24 Upper Upright Bearing Cap

The Upper Upright Bearing Cap

Model Version: 8.0

Material: 6061-T6

Yield Strength: 4.600e+08 Pa

Validation: June 15th, 2023

By: Katherine Nguyen

1 The Upper Upright Bearing Cap
2 Loading
3 Fixtures
4 Mesh Refinement
5 Mesh Convergence & Results
- 5.1 Case #2: Forwards Left
- 5.2 Case #4: Forwards Right
6 Recommendations

Loading

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 positive Z

Loading Case #1:

Upright to UCA

-3299.679523

-115.1178968

52.35353565

0

Loading Case #2:

Upright to UCA

5289.283482

184.5304023

493.6893625

0

Only Fz force applied

Loading Case #3:

Upright to UCA

-8504.324391

-296.6954611

369.6017313

0

Loading Case #4:

Upright to UCA

6762.228426

235.9179152

-533.8395702

0

Loading Case #5:

Upright to UCA

-10872.67222

-379.3214308

-346.9078363

0

Fixtures

Advanced Fixture on Cylindrical Faces (block radial, axial, and circumferential translation)

Mesh Refinement

0.25 mm element size; 0.225 mm min element size on this chamfered edge

Mesh Convergence & Results

Case #2: Forwards Left

Node Size	Max Stress (Pa)	Location

Node Size	Max Stress (Pa)	Location
2 mm	2.447e+06
1.75 mm	2.545e+06
1.5 mm	2.711e+06
1.25 mm	2.916e+06
1 mm	3.000e+06

Case #4: Forwards Right

Node Size	Max Stress (Pa)	Location

Node Size	Max Stress (Pa)	Location
2 mm	1.055e+06
1.75 mm	1.097e+06
1.5 mm	1.186e+06
1.25 mm	1.244e+06
1 mm	1.305e+06

Recommendations

The bearing housing cap passed both extreme cases, with the lowest safety factor (11.33) occurring in case #2.