The example crank slot analysis in this section introduces you to the Mechanical APDL program's multibody analysis capabilities. To facilitate modeling and simulation in a multibody analysis, we suggest using the Ansys Workbench product along with Mechanical APDL to develop your analysis. The input files used to run the crank slot analysis in Mechanical APDL were generated by Ansys Workbench.
The following topics are available for this example multibody analysis of a crank slot mechanism:
- 6.1. Problem Description
- 6.2. Problem Specifications
- 6.3. Defining Joints
- 6.4. Performing the Rigid Body Analysis
- 6.5. Performing the Flexible Body Analysis
- 6.6. Using Component Mode Synthesis in the Multibody Analysis
- 6.7. Using Joint Probes
- 6.8. Comparing Processing Times
- 6.9. Input Files Used in This Analysis