Questions tagged [wheels]
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Gizmo away from the object in FreeCAD
I downloaded a Mecanum wheel model from grabcad but its Gizmo is away from the Object. Is there any way to correct it? I tried Changing "Position" under "Placement" but its ...
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Friction force between two wheels at constant rpm
I have two tangent wheels pinned at their centers /which coincide with the center of mass/ and torque is applied to one of them (both roll without slipping). I want to find what force would they exert ...
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How to determine minimum and maximum value of lateral displacement in Railway Equivalent Conicity Calculation
I am trying to calculate the Equivalent Conicity for railway application by referring to ...
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Alternatives of rubber sealant cement for finalizing patch-plug repair on car tyre?
I am doing a patch-plug repair for a 2mm puncture injury on my car tire:
I have two questions:
1.) The minimum I got at local stores (in India) is a 6mm patch-plug. Do I need to drill/cut the injury ...
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Modeling of Wheel Rolling Resistance
I have been working on longitudinal tire model for a while and constantly encounter problems with the formulation of rolling resistance. Consider one wheel model coming down from a damp. It is a 2DOF ...
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Minimum power required to drive a vehicle with a Swedish type omni wheels
I'm trying to find the minimal power needed to drive an omidirectional 3-wheeled robot. I already asked in Robotics Stack Exchange and they didn't respond yet.
From the equation $P=Fv$ I know I need ...
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Derusting car wheel's control arm by soaking in vinegar?
Would it be safe to remove the built up rust on wheels' control arms by soaking them in vinegar?
Or is Hydrogen embrittlement a concern for a run-of-the-mill, 10-years old control arm, which is (I ...
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Algorithm to detect flat tyre by comparing wheels speeds
So ABS systems are capable of detecting a flat tyre, because it will roll a bit faster (because of smaller diameter).
What could be speed difference, needed to detect such fault? Do ABS systems only ...
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Why can’t we accelerate a rotating object after some point?
If I push an object in a linear way with constant force bigger than frictional force on ground, the object will accelerate more and more until air drag force matches it. Logically, If I add the same ...
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shaft connected double water wheel to lift water back in closed loop
This is meant for mechanical closed system for hydroponics. Two wheels connected by same shaft so the wheel going down lifts the water back with the other interconnected wheel to a slight incline. I ...
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How to affix a 3/4" keyed bore wheel/pulley to 5/8" D-profile shaft?
How do I affix a 1.5-inch-thick wheel with a 0.75-inch keyed bore (or pulley) to my motor's 1.25-inch-long x 5/8" diameter D-profile shaft (both pictured)"?
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Tire engineering - are "free rolling" and "slip ratio" defined with respect to a specific tire/road material pair?
Pacjeka states the following on his introduction to tire characteristics:
The upright wheel rolling freely, that is without applying a driving
torque, over a flat level road surface along a straight ...
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Incremental encoder with memory
I'm working on a robotics project. In this project we need to control the angle position of the wheels. We are going to use an incremental encoder (we didn't find an absolute encoder that was able to ...
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Connecting a brushed direct drive motor to a wheel with no holes in the hub
I am building a 4 wheel drive rover robot. I was very lucky to find four good condition wheel chair motors on the side of the road. I had to disassemble the wheel chairs of course but well worth the ...
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On a car with all-wheel drive, how does the engine provide the angled front wheels with power?
Obviously, a single solid axle connected straight through the wheels would bend if the wheels to which is was connected were to rotate right or left with respect to a vertical line (i.e. be steered). ...
