sabre

[typhoon_driver]

Been indirectly doing more work on the robot. For a uni project using ansys to carry out a finite element analysis I decided to carry out an analysis on sabre's disc. The following shows some of the pics of the results,

In each analysis the disc was completely fixed in the center, ie on a solid shaft and the disc was stopped from full speed to a stop within a 30 degree angle. Two rather large assumptions but they get me going on the analysis. Curiously if this was to happen the disc would experience forces of the order of 450kN plus. The first analysis was carried out with the force being applied to a tooth, ie me hitting someone else, and the second with a large force acting at the edge of the disc, ie someone hitting me.

Of course all of this creates these nice colourful pictures which is the bit that everyone's always interested in