.Modelica.Mechanics.Rotational.Examples.LossyGearDemo1

Information

This model contains two inertias which are connected by an ideal gear where the friction between the teeth of the gear is modeled in a physical meaningful way (friction may lead to stuck mode which locks the motion of the gear). The friction is defined by an efficiency factor (= 0.5) for forward and backward driving condition leading to a torque dependent friction loss. Simulate for about 0.5 seconds. The friction in the gear will take all modes (forward and backward rolling, as well as stuck).

You may plot:

Inertia1.w,
Inertia2.w : angular velocities of inertias
powerLoss  : power lost in the gear
gear.mode  :  1 = forward rolling
              0 = stuck (w=0)
             -1 = backward rolling

Note, powerLoss (= sum of the power flows of the connectors) and gear.powerLoss (= gear.tau_loss*gear.w_a, where gear.tau_loss is determined in a non-trivial way from the stuck/sliding situation of the bearing and teeth friction; = equation (16) in [Pelchen2002]) should be identical, or the difference should be close to zero, if model LossyGear is correctly implemented.