Calculate powerful drive systems
Gearings, gears, drive technology
Gearings
Drives and gearboxes are essential components of drive technology. Accurate and reliable dimensioning is the be-all and end-all when calculating gears. With the MDESIGN calculation modules, all important values can be calculated and subsequently documented:
- Spur gear pairs
- Gear racks
- Ring gears
- Bevel and hypoid gears
- Crown gears
- Worm gears
- Plastic gears
- Planetary gears
- Gear assemblies
MDESIGN's powerful help system guides you through the definition of geometries and the required factors. Access to material and lubricant data and the automatic transfer of all characteristic values minimizes the time required.
The clear presentation of the calculated results immediately provides the necessary insights for:
- Torques and speeds
- Safeties for tooth root, flank and seizing situations
- All necessary geometries, including center distances, diameters, factors
- All required values for the strength verification
MDESIGN supports professional results, e.g. with simulation of tooth engagement, load distribution calculations and optimization methods.
MDESIGN also offers a range of result graphs and diagrams for assessing the results for the topic of gearing. Diagrams for the specific sliding, the load capacity, the force distribution factor and the contact temperature are provided for the respective calculations.
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Gearbox
MDESIGN also offers licensable modules for calculating complete gearboxes or optimizing the microgeometry of individual tooth shapes:
- MDESIGN gearbox
Gearbox modeling and optimization of gears, shafts, and bearings within a single gearbox. This approach offers time savings for multi-stage gearboxes. - MDESIGN LVR/LVRplanet
Load distribution calculation for tooth flank optimization for spur and planetary gears
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Clutches & brakes
In this specialist area, MDESIGN supports the dimensioning of shoe drum brakes, band brakes and brake dynamometers. It is supplemented by a module for calculating shaft couplings in accordance with DIN 740, where the calculation methods focus on pre-dimensioning, determining the moments of inertia and dimensioning according to the most unfavorable load type.
The specialist topic of "Clutches & Brakes" is also covered in the Gearing section:
- Shaft couplings according to DIN 740
- Predetermination
- Determination of the moments of inertia
- Design according to load types
- Design of a brake
- Braking force determination for shoe brakes, band brakes and brake dynamometers
Belt and chain drives
Gear drives are not feasible for many designs. Alternatively, belt and chain drives can also solve many tasks. Material data from the belt manufacturers is required for correct performance design. The necessary data for belts from Walther Flender and the Mulco Group are supplied by MDESIGN.
Synchronous belt calculation for multiple pulley systems with:
Further calculations for narrow V-belts and standard V-belts as well as the quick design of the wrap are also available.
Usable results:
- Selection of suitable components
- Geometry parameters
- Performance parameters
- Dynamic results
