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Design of a constant force mechanism (CFM) Student version 2023R1

    • Dorian Tapia
      Subscriber

      Hello community, I hope you are all doing well. My problem is that I'm trying to design a CFM resembling a gripper in static structural using TPU95A as the material. So far, I've tried activating large deflection, setting initial and minimum substeps to 100, and maximum substeps to 1000. I used Keyopt(6)==1 and Keyopt(2)==1. Additionally, I sized my mesh to 1.6mm, which I think is decent. I tried all these things because TPU95A is an elastomer; nevertheless, deformation results are still linear instead of nonlinear. What can I try now? Has anyone designed a CFM in ANSYS before?

      PD: Sorry for my bad english.

    • Sampat Kumar
      Ansys Employee

      Hello Dorian,
      We have received your query, but it appears you may have created a duplicate. Try to avoid creating duplicates query in the future, I will close this query and further discussion related to this query will be on the following link.

      /forum/forums/topic/design-of-a-constant-force-mechanism-cfm/

      Best Regards,
      Sampat

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