I have a gear rack and pinion design in igs format. i need to perform FEA for strength analysis of that design. cant find any tutorial about it. i would be glad if someone would be kind enough to show me the way or at least link for learning the way.
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The step for analysis should be as
0. Open the static structural in ansys workbench.
1. Create a connection between the teeth of rack and pinion. It may be frictional or frictionless contact.
2. Create a moment on the pinion gear and fix base of rack gear
3. Then add the results you want to display and solve
4. Make sure you mesh the setup finely and skewness should be near to 0 and orthogonal quality should be near to 1