Help with simulate a force load

bernard_lucas

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/14a4cc1182d0980175a4fa18/w/09699c0940926046713b6e0e/e/b6355ed00a422ae6e0867be5?renderMode=10&uiState=6752e80b1e8dfc77405a6373

I'm working with a wheel rolling on a flat surface. When I tilt the flat surface back and forth, the wheel rolls accordingly.

Now, I want to simulate the effect of a force applied at one extremity of the flat surface, expecting it to cause the surface to tilt and, consequently, the wheel to roll. However, when I attempt this in my simulation, I encounter a generic error message stating, "simulation did not converge."

Could you help me understand why the simulation is not converging and suggest potential solutions to fix this issue?

Oliver_Couch

Stress Simulations are for static stress analysis only - this means no moving parts. If you need to do kinematics and collision detection you'll need to use different software.

Oliver_Couch

Stress Simulations are for static stress analysis only - this means no moving parts. If you need to do kinematics and collision detection you'll need to use different software.

joshtargo

tangentially, I wrote a statics solver for rigid bodies. But nothing is moving (hence "statics").

Statics Solver

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9e81e5d8e71227cf44c561b6/w/b644076af57215e652a8e7f3/e/6044abd6f98daf7912f567d6