IdealGear

Ideal gear without inertia

    IdealGear

Library

Modelica/Mechanics/Rotational/Components

Description

This element characterizes any type of gear box which is fixed in theground and which has one driving shaft and one driven shaft.The gear is ideal, i.e., it does not have inertia, elasticity, dampingor backlash. If these effects have to be considered, the gear has to beconnected to other elements in an appropriate way.

Parameters

IdealGear_0

NameLabelDescriptionData TypeValid Values

mo_useSupport

useSupport

= true, if support flange enabled, otherwise implicitly grounded

Number

0
1

mo_ratio

ratio

Transmission ratio (flange_a.phi/flange_b.phi)

Scalar

IdealGear_1

NameLabelDescriptionData TypeValid Values

mo__nmodifiers

Number of Modifiers

Specifies the number of modifiers

Number

mo__modifiers

Modifiers

Add new modifier

Structure

mo__modifiers/varname

Variable name

Cell of strings

'phi_support'
'phi_a'
'phi_b'

mo__modifiers/attribute

Attribute

Cell of strings

'start'
'fixed'

mo__modifiers/value

Value

Ports

NameTypeDescriptionIO TypeNumber

flange_a

implicit

Flange of left shaft

input

1

flange_b

implicit

Flange of right shaft

output

1

Port 3

implicit

Support/housing of component

input

mo_useSupport

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