Dynamic analysis of a planar multibody system with multiple revolute clearance joints

Author(s):  
Xupeng Wang ◽  
Wenzhou Lin ◽  
Xiaomin Ji ◽  
Zhu Gao ◽  
Xiaobo Bai ◽  
...  

This paper focuses on the dynamic responses of a planar mechanism with multiple clearance joints. The effect of the impact between the journal and the bearing in the clearance joint is described using an improved impact force model, and a typical four-bar linkage mechanism with multiple clearance joints is presented as an example. Two conditions are considered in this research, one is the single clearance joint with different position, and the other is multiple clearance joints. From a large number of numerical results, some important conclusions are obtained as follows: (1) with the influence of the clearance joint, the dynamic output of system has obvious vibration in comparison to the ideal value. (2) The position of the clearance joint has a clear effect on the response of system; the larger the distance of the clearance joint from the drive motor, the smaller its influence on the output of the system. (3) With the increase in the clearance joint number, the dynamic stability of the multibody system is decreased gradually, and the dynamic characteristic of the system also appears as obvious nonlinear phenomenon. (4) The coupling phenomenon appears when multiple clearance joints in the multibody system are considered, which should be examined seriously during the process of design and numerical analysis.

Mechanika ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-138
Author(s):  
Zhengfeng Bai ◽  
Tianxi LIU

Clearances caused by assemblage, manufacturing errors and wear, affect inevitably the dynamic responses of mechanisms such as robot manipulator. In this study, the effects of clearance on a robot manipulator system are investigated numerically. The contact behavior along normal and tangential direction of clearance joint is described by a nonlinear contact force model and a modified Coulomb friction model respectively. Then, the dynamics equations of the robot manipulator system are established considering joint clearance. In order to investigate the effects of clearance on dynamic performances of practical mechanism, a planar robot manipulator system on a spacecraft system with a revolute clearance joint is used as the apply example. Four case studies for various clearance sizes are implemented to investigate and discuss the effects of joint clearance. The simulation results indicate that clearance joints have severe effects on the dynamic performances of mechanism system and the impact in clearance joints represented by contact force models must be considered in dynamics analysis and design of mechanism system. The simulation results in this work can predict the effects of clearance on robot manipulator system preferably and it is the basis of precision analysis, robust control system design of robot manipulator system.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Bamdad ◽  
Amirhosein Javanfar

Abstract Clearance joint widely occurs in the components of mechanical systems as evidence of manufacturing errors. Since a proper set of parameters in the contact and friction model could lead to a higher precision of clearance analysis, the effect of friction models when surfaces collide with a non-zero tangential velocity is examined. Unlike the crank mechanism, a double rocker four - bar linkage mechanism as a challenging problem in the impact mode is analyzed. An investigation on the dynamic modeling and analysis of double rocker four - bar linkage mechanisms with frictional revolute clearance joints is presented. In the presence of clearance joints, asserting friction force, a novel formulation of the contact model is proposed after exploring the perfect continuous friction models with easy parameterization and analyzing the applicable compliant contact force models. The perfect continuous friction models including stribeck effect, static, dynamic, and viscous friction terms are studied, and four friction models (Ambrosio, Threlfall, Anderson and Brown) are thoroughly compared. Using an appropriate model, nonlinear dynamic behaviour is examined and to profit by Poincare portrait; it is proven that either strange chaos exists in the system response. FFT analysis expresses the friction and restitution coefficient influence the nonlinear dynamics of the mechanism significantly. The main consideration here is to present a friction model for improving continuity and computational cost. This paper comes to efficiency of the brown friction model which is used in the clearance joint for first time. The results clearly reveal that the angular accelerations of the links and the contact forces in the continuous friction models are smoother and bounded.


Author(s):  
P. Flores ◽  
J. Ambro´sio ◽  
J. C. P. Claro ◽  
H. M. Lankarani

This work deals with a methodology to assess the influence of the spherical clearance joints in spatial multibody systems. The methodology is based on the Cartesian coordinates, being the dynamics of the joint elements modeled as impacting bodies and controlled by contact forces. The impacts and contacts are described by a continuous contact force model that accounts for geometric and mechanical characteristics of the contacting surfaces. The contact force is evaluated as function of the elastic pseudo-penetration between the impacting bodies, coupled with a nonlinear viscous-elastic factor representing the energy dissipation during the impact process. A spatial four bar mechanism is used as an illustrative example and some numerical results are presented, being the efficiency of the developed methodology discussed in the process of their presentation. The results obtained show that the inclusion of clearance joints in the modelization of spatial multibody systems significantly influences the prediction of components’ position and drastically increases the peaks in acceleration and reaction moments at the joints. Moreover, the system’s response clearly tends to be nonperiodic when a clearance joint is included in the simulation.


Author(s):  
H. M. Lankarani ◽  
F. Wu

Abstract Reducing the severity of an impact to a structure or a multibody system is a significant aspect of engineering design. This requires the knowledge of variations of the resulting contact forces and also how these contact forces can be reduced. This paper presents an optimization methodology for the selection of proper parameters in the contact/impact force models so as to minimize the maximum value of the contact force. A two-particle model of an impact between two solids is considered, and then generalized to the impact analysis between two bodies of a multibody system. The concept of effective mass is presented in order to compensate for the effect of joint forces or impulses. The system is reduced to a single degree-of-freedom mass-spring-damper vibro-impact system. A single differential equation of motion in the direction of relative indentation of local contact surfaces is derived. Different contact force models of hysteresis form including linear and nonlinear models are described. An optimization problem is then formulated and solved by using the method of modified feasible direction for constrained minimization. A numerical integrator is used at every design iteration to obtain the system dynamic response for a given set of design variables. The objective function is to minimize the peak acceleration of the system equivalent mass resulting from the contact force. Comparison of the system with optimal parameters and non-optimal one shows that the peak contact force is greatly reduced for the optimal one. Since these parameters reflect the material properties (stiffness and damping) of the impacting bodies or surfaces, suitable materials may then be selected based upon the information provided by this optimization procedure. It is observed that the materials, which have good crashworthiness properties should posses capability of dissipating impact energy both in the forms of permanent indentation and internal damping friction. Based upon the analysis of the impact responses, mechanism of energy dissipation, and the typical force-indentation diagram for the high energy absorption materials obtained from experiments, a new contact force model is proposed which could precisely describe the impact response of high energy-absorption materials.


Author(s):  
Bo Li ◽  
San-Min Wang ◽  
Viliam Makis ◽  
Xiang-Zhen Xue

This paper comprehensively investigates the parametric effects of differently located revolute clearance joints on the dynamic behavior of planar deployable structure based on scissor-like element. Considering the real physical mechanical joints, the normal and the tangential forces in the revolute clearance joints are respectively modeled using Flores contact-force model and LuGre friction model. The resulting forces and moments are embedded in the equations of motion of the scissor deployable structure for accurately describing the effect of joint clearance and governing the dynamic response of this structure. The effects of the main parameters such as the location of the clearance joint, the clearance size and the number of clearance joints on the dynamic characteristics of a multibody mechanical system have been numerically evaluated, and the results indicate that joints at different locations in a mechanical system have different sensitivities to the clearance size, and the more sensitive joint should be controlled to reduce the nonlinear behavior of this structure. Also, it can be concluded that the motion in one revolute clearance joint will affect the motion in the other clearance joints and the dynamic interaction of clearance joints is the important source of structural behavior change. Therefore, in order to accurately predict the dynamic responses of the mechanical system, the clearance effect of each joint on the multibody system should be investigated and understood.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Xiulong ◽  
Jia Yonghao

The goal of this work is to investigate the dynamic responses of the parallel mechanism with irregular clearances caused by wear and to further reveal the influences of multiple clearance interaction on wear. The motion model and the force model of spherical clearance joint based on a continuous contact force model and a static friction model are established. The dynamic equation of the spatial parallel mechanism considering two spherical clearance joints is derived. A general wear analysis strategy to establish spherical clearance joint with sustainable updation of the surface profile is presented, and the dynamic responses of parallel mechanism after wear are studied. The interaction between two wear joints with different initial clearance values is further investigated. The results show that it is necessary to consider the factor of irregular clearances caused by wear in the analysis of dynamics behavior for precision mechanisms. Proper distribution of clearance values can reduce wear of clearance joint and improve the useful life of mechanism to a certain extent. This work provides a foundation for life prediction and reliability analysis of parallel mechanisms.


2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Flores ◽  
J. Ambrósio ◽  
J. C. P. Claro ◽  
H. M. Lankarani

This work deals with a methodology to assess the influence of the spherical clearance joints in spatial multibody systems. The methodology is based on the Cartesian coordinates, with the dynamics of the joint elements modeled as impacting bodies and controlled by contact forces. The impacts and contacts are described by a continuous contact force model that accounts for geometric and mechanical characteristics of the contacting surfaces. The contact force is evaluated as function of the elastic pseudo-penetration between the impacting bodies, coupled with a nonlinear viscous-elastic factor representing the energy dissipation during the impact process. A spatial four-bar mechanism is used as an illustrative example and some numerical results are presented, with the efficiency of the developed methodology discussed in the process of their presentation. The results obtained show that the inclusion of clearance joints in the modelization of spatial multibody systems significantly influences the prediction of components’ position and drastically increases the peaks in acceleration and reaction moments at the joints. Moreover, the system’s response clearly tends to be nonperiodic when a clearance joint is included in the simulation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-229
Author(s):  
Zheng-Feng Bai ◽  
Bin-jiu Yang ◽  
Yi Sun

In this work, the dynamic responses and vibration characteristics of mechanical system with revolute clearance joints are investigated numerically. Considering clearance in joint, the intra-joint contact model that is generated at clearance joints is established using a nonlinear continuous contact force model and the friction effect is considered by using a modified Coulomb friction model. A well-known slider-crank mechanism with a revolute clearance joint is utilized to perform the investigation. The effects of clearance on dynamics of mechanical system are analyzed by timedomain responses and frequency domain analysis. The investigation results show that the dynamic responses of mechanical system with clearance are obviously vibration and the amplitude increases from the mechanism without clearance. The results also indicate that the behavior of mechanism with clearance is nonlinear.


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