ME 115 Final Spring 2003 Problem 2 By Luke Saxelby
In order to build this model I started by drawing all of the rods to the proper size and orientation.
Here I changed the appearance and gave a name to rod ABCD and placed pin joints at the ends of rods BE and CF
Here, I place motors at the bottom of rods BE and CF and specified the proper angular velocities.
I then clicked on one of the pin joints and selected to measure force from the measure menu.
I added a total of four measurement windows, two for each joint. I then changed the force windows so that one measured as a graph and the other as a numerical number only. These values show the vertical force at each of the pins.
I then ran the model for one full rotation. A plot of the forces can be seen for this one rotation.