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JoeS4
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How would you go about designing a shaft with 2 bearings, 2 gears, and the shaft has various diameters (d1, d2, d3)?
You know how much power needs to be transferred from one gear to another, the distance between both of the gears, the minimum allowed distance between gear and bearing centers, the material of the shaft, rotational velocity of input gear, the maximum length of the shaft, there will be 2 shoulders, input gear is somewhere along the second diameter, output gear is somewhere on the third diameter, bearings are somewhere on the first and third diameters.
I'd like to use a program like MATLAB for optimization to graphically identify changes as unknown values fluctuate. With so many unknown variables, how would you recommend approaching this?
You know how much power needs to be transferred from one gear to another, the distance between both of the gears, the minimum allowed distance between gear and bearing centers, the material of the shaft, rotational velocity of input gear, the maximum length of the shaft, there will be 2 shoulders, input gear is somewhere along the second diameter, output gear is somewhere on the third diameter, bearings are somewhere on the first and third diameters.
I'd like to use a program like MATLAB for optimization to graphically identify changes as unknown values fluctuate. With so many unknown variables, how would you recommend approaching this?