Recent content by scatman2244

Thanks for the help Doug. I setup a very simple simulation and had a play with the options available and I feel like I am on the right track with my model again. There a few outstanding issues, but they are to do with my mesh. It's quite interesting the amount of influence that setting the...

Tmoose, It fails adjacent to the clamping ring, at the boss-flange fillet root. The boss experiences repeated fully reversed bending.

Hi All, Recently I have dealt with some interesting fatigue failures of couplings installed on torque arm mounted conveyor drives. The conveyor pulley shaft and the low speed shaft of the gearbox are connected via a shrink fit coupling (Stuewe FKH 560-180 for example). Since the drive overhangs...