In conventional modeling of a cable-pulley system, the cable must be finely meshed with Lagrangian elements for valid contact detections with pulleys, leading to extremely low efficiency. The sliding joint method base...In conventional modeling of a cable-pulley system, the cable must be finely meshed with Lagrangian elements for valid contact detections with pulleys, leading to extremely low efficiency. The sliding joint method based on the arbitrary-Lagrangian- Eulerian （ALE） formulation still lacks an efficient cable element, and in particular, modeling of friction between a sliding joint and the cable has not been studied. This paper presents efficient multi-body modeling of a cable-pulley system with friction. A variable- length cable element with a node movable along the cable, which is described with ALE, is developed to mesh the cable. A transitional cable element is then proposed to model the contact part of the cable by fixing its two nodes to the two corresponding locations of the pulley. Friction of the cable-pulley is derived as a simple law of tension decay and embedded in the multi-body system modeling. It is simplified as a generalized friction force acting only on the arc-length coordinate. This approach can use a rough mesh on the cable, and is free of contact detections, thus significantly saving computation time. Several examples are presented to validate the proposed method, and show its effectiveness in real engineering applications.展开更多
In the software of data management system, there are some different lengths of records needed storing in an array, and the number of records often increases in use of the software. A universal data structure is presen...In the software of data management system, there are some different lengths of records needed storing in an array, and the number of records often increases in use of the software. A universal data structure is presented in the design, and it provide an unified interface for dynamic storage records in different length, so that the developers can call the unified interface directly for the data storage to simplify the design of data management system.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11302114)the Major State Basic Research Development Program(No.2012CB821203)the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory Construction Project of China(No.2011A060901026)
文摘In conventional modeling of a cable-pulley system, the cable must be finely meshed with Lagrangian elements for valid contact detections with pulleys, leading to extremely low efficiency. The sliding joint method based on the arbitrary-Lagrangian- Eulerian （ALE） formulation still lacks an efficient cable element, and in particular, modeling of friction between a sliding joint and the cable has not been studied. This paper presents efficient multi-body modeling of a cable-pulley system with friction. A variable- length cable element with a node movable along the cable, which is described with ALE, is developed to mesh the cable. A transitional cable element is then proposed to model the contact part of the cable by fixing its two nodes to the two corresponding locations of the pulley. Friction of the cable-pulley is derived as a simple law of tension decay and embedded in the multi-body system modeling. It is simplified as a generalized friction force acting only on the arc-length coordinate. This approach can use a rough mesh on the cable, and is free of contact detections, thus significantly saving computation time. Several examples are presented to validate the proposed method, and show its effectiveness in real engineering applications.
文摘In the software of data management system, there are some different lengths of records needed storing in an array, and the number of records often increases in use of the software. A universal data structure is presented in the design, and it provide an unified interface for dynamic storage records in different length, so that the developers can call the unified interface directly for the data storage to simplify the design of data management system.
