A pair of silent chain link consists of an outer link and inner link. A user must create a pair of chain link from which all chain links are copied. Once a pair of chain links is created, it will be registered as clone body. The inertial properties of the assembled chain link are automatically duplicated as the values of clone body. A single pin is used to connect two links of a chain system in this model. The geometric information provided by a user is used for both display and contact force computation in the solver. Therefore, the chain link properties must be defined carefully prior to assembling a chain system.
(a) Silent Chain link geometry
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P |
Pitch |
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Wl |
Total Width of Outer Link |
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Tp |
Plate Thickness |
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Rp |
Pin Radius |
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Lp |
Pin Length |
(b) Dimension information
Figure 1 Silent Chain Link