Contact incinident information

Question

Hello,

I am trying to extract information about the contact incidents in Adams, in order to exact the times at wich more than 1 gear tooth pair of an involute gear model come into contact. I understand that after the simulation, I can look at the contact incidents and tracks, but if possible, I'd like to be able to extract the incidents during simulation, in the form of measurements.

Thanks,

Josef K.

Maziar R · Accepted Answer

Hi Jozef,

Measures in Adams are predefined and computed during run-time. However, the contact incidents and the number of them is not something that you define before the simulation. As such we create the contact tracks in the post processor as a post processing action on the contact incidents.

You certainly can control the contact tracks so that you can achieve what you are looking for. To do this, you can go to Tools > Command Navigator > analysis > collate_contacts :

and select the analysis and contact objects of interest. Now by providing a small tolerance value, you will be able to combine contacts incidents that are very close to one another in an attempt to isolate different portions of your contact region that occur at different times.

To learn more about the analysis collate_contacts command, please refer to the Adams Online Help and navigate to:

Adams Basic Package > Adams View > View Command Language > analysis > analysis collate_contacts

Thank you,

Maziar