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Mechanical Design & Mechanism Simulators

Gears, springs, bearings, cams, and linkages — from fundamentals to professional practice. Interactively calculate power transmission, strength, and service life.

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SIMULATORS
Belt Drive
Calculate belt length, tension, and power for your drive system. Set pulley dimensions, center distance, and speed with this interactive CAE transmission calcul
Bolt Fatigue
Calculate bolt preload, working stresses, and fatigue safety factor with this online tool. Input bolt grade, diameter, and load for instant analysis.
Bolt Preload
Calculate bolt tightening torque, preload, joint stiffness, and fatigue safety factor in real time for grades 4.6–12.9 and sizes M6–M48.
Bolted Connection
Calculate bolt stress, safety factor & allowable load instantly. Enter bolt diameter, grade, quantity & applied loads for your CAE design verification.
Bolted Flange
Design bolted pipe flanges per ASME Sec.VIII. Calculate bolt load for gasket seating, operating conditions, leakage margin, and bolt stress.
Bolted Joint
Bolted joint simulator computing bolt load, flange clamping force, separation safety factor, and Goodman fatigue safety factor in real time. Includes joint diag
Cam Follower
Design cam profiles with real-time animation. Calculate follower displacement, velocity, acceleration, pressure angle, and contact stress for cycloidal and poly
Cam Mechanism
Visualize cam follower motion in real time. Compare SHM, cycloidal, and polynomial profiles. Analyze displacement, velocity, and acceleration instantly.
Cam Profile
Design and animate disk cam profiles in real time. Compare SHM, cycloidal, and modified sinusoidal motion programs. View displacement, velocity, and acceleratio
Centrifugal Force Sim
Visualize centrifugal force and effective g-force in real-time. Toggle between rotating and inertial frames to understand this key physics concept.
Coriolis Effect
Compare inertial vs. rotating frames in this Coriolis Effect simulator. See how straight-line motion curves, explaining typhoon formation and Earth's rotation p
Crank Slider
Simulate piston kinematics in real-time. Adjust crank radius, rod length, and speed to visualize position, velocity, and acceleration.
Engine Kinematics
Analyze crank-slider kinematics with displacement, velocity, and acceleration calculations. Understand motion intuitively with animations and graphs.
Flywheel
Design flywheels for IC engines, punch presses, and wind turbines. Calculate required moment of inertia, stored energy, speed fluctuation, and burst safety fact
Gear Efficiency
Calculate gear train efficiency and tooth bending stress instantly. Adjust module, tooth count, and torque for real-time AGMA and Lewis bending stress results.
Gear Epicyclic
Calculate gear ratios, torque, and efficiency with our interactive epicyclic gear train calculator. Visualize planetary gear motion instantly.
Gear Ratio
Calculate gear ratios, output speed, and torque in real-time. Visualize rotation with animations for simple, compound, and planetary gear systems.
Gear Stress
Calculate gear tooth stress with our free online tool. Input module, power, speed & material to get Lewis bending and Hertz contact stress results instantly.
Gear Tooth
Design and analyze spur gears instantly. Adjust module, teeth, and pressure angle to render involute profiles and compute contact ratio and bending stress.
Gear Train
Interactive simulator for spur & planetary gear trains. Visualize meshing, calculate ratios, speed, torque, and pitch diameters with accurate animations.
Gyroscope
Calculate gyroscope precession instantly. Input spin, mass, radius, and tilt to visualize angular momentum and nutation for engineering and physics.
Hydraulic Cylinder
Calculate hydraulic cylinder forces, speeds, buckling safety, and power instantly. Free online tool for engineers.
Hydraulic Jack
Calculate hydraulic jack force, pressure, and flow with this interactive tool. Visualize Pascal's principle and adjust piston sizes in real time.
Hydraulic Ram
Interactive Hydraulic Ram simulator — calculate and visualize engineering parameters in real time using industry-standard methods.
Hydrodynamic Bearing
Analyze journal bearing performance in real time. Visualize oil film pressure, shaft locus, and compute key parameters like the Sommerfeld number.
Linkage Mechanism
Analyze 4-bar linkage and crank-slider mechanisms with real-time animation. Calculate Grashof condition, transmission angle, velocity, and acceleration.
Mechanical Advantage
Explore mechanical advantage with interactive simulations for levers, pulleys, inclined planes, and screws. Adjust forces and friction to see real-time vector a
Pneumatic Circuit
Calculate pneumatic cylinder forces, air consumption, pressure drop & compressor sizing in real-time. Essential tool for factory automation & industrial design.
Press Fit
Calculate contact pressure, assembly force, torque capacity, and stress for press-fit designs using Lamé thick-cylinder equations.
Rigid Body Rotation
Calculate moment of inertia for disks, spheres, rods & more. Visualize rigid body rotation, apply the parallel axis theorem, and explore rotational kinetic ener
Rolling Bearing
Calculate rolling bearing L10 life in hours & years. Enter load, bearing type & dynamic rating. Uses ISO 281 formula for ball or roller bearings.
Rotational Dynamics
Simulate rotational dynamics in real-time. Calculate moment of inertia, torque, angular acceleration, kinetic energy, and angular momentum instantly.
Screw Thread
Calculate tightening torque, self-locking, and efficiency for metric, UNC, and UNF threads with our real-time bolt torque calculator.
Spring Constant
Calculate spring constant, solid length, index, and frequency for helical and leaf springs with our free real-time calculator.
Spring Design
Design and analyze coil springs instantly. Adjust wire diameter, coil count, and more to calculate spring rate, shear stress, Wahl factor, and natural frequency
Spring Fatigue
Calculate coil spring fatigue safety factors in real-time. Visualize stress on a Goodman diagram and apply the Wahl correction factor.
Spring Network
Simulate springs in series, parallel, or combination. Calculate equivalent stiffness, displacement, force, and strain energy with interactive physics formulas.
Suspension Kinematics
Optimize double wishbone or MacPherson strut geometry in real time. Visualize camber, track width, and roll center height versus wheel travel in this CAE suspen
Tire Dynamics
Interactive tire dynamics simulator using Pacejka Magic Formula. Visualize lateral force vs slip angle, friction ellipse animation, and compare tire presets. Ad
Tire Mechanics
Visualize tire forces in real time. Adjust slip angle, load, and friction to explore the Pacejka Magic Formula and the friction circle.
Torsion Shaft
Calculate shaft torque, shear stress, and twist angle. Input power, RPM, cross-section, and material for instant design results.
Vehicle Dynamics
Simulate vehicle handling with linear bicycle model. Compute yaw rate, sideslip, understeer gradient, and characteristic speed.
Worm Gear
Calculate worm gear forward/reverse efficiency and self-locking threshold. Input lead angle and friction coefficient for instant results.
Bicycle Gear Ratio Simulator
Calculate bicycle speed and travel distance from chainring, sprocket teeth, cadence and wheel diameter.

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Mechanical Design Fundamentals

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How do I calculate the contact stress between gear teeth?
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Use the Hertz contact model: σ_H = Z_H × Z_E × √(F_t/(b×d₁) × (u±1)/u). In AGMA terms, Z_H is the zone factor and Z_E the elasticity factor. For steel gears, typical allowable contact stress is 1000–1500 MPa for hardened surfaces.
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And for bolt fatigue — how does preload affect the fatigue life?
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Preload is crucial: it keeps the bolt in compression during cyclic loading, dramatically reducing stress amplitude. With proper preload (typically 70% of yield), the alternating stress seen by the bolt is only a small fraction of the applied load — that's the VDI 2230 principle behind joint diagrams.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: What gear standards are used in the gear stress calculator?

A: The simulator follows AGMA 2001 for bending stress (Lewis equation with geometry factors) and contact stress (Hertz pressure). Input module, tooth count, face width, and material to get bending and contact safety factors instantly.

Q: How is bolt preload torque calculated?

A: T = K × F × d, where K is the nut factor (0.15–0.20 for lubricated steel), F is the target preload, and d is the nominal diameter. Typical preload is 70–80% of proof load to allow for relaxation.

Q: What is the difference between a cam follower and a flat-faced follower?

A: A roller follower distributes load over a line contact (lower pressure) and can follow concave cam profiles. A flat-faced follower requires a convex cam, generates higher sliding velocity, but is simpler to manufacture.

Q: How does flywheel sizing work?

A: The required moment of inertia is I = ΔE / (ω_mean × δ), where ΔE is the cyclic energy fluctuation, ω_mean is mean angular speed, and δ is the coefficient of fluctuation of speed (typically 0.01–0.05 for precision machinery).