Recent content by ilyes

Hi Travis, Thank your for the clarification about the formula, it totally makes sense and it is actually obvious, I should have thought of it. Thank you for the explanation. I don't quite get it, you say total torque and torque required to accelerate the mass, I thought that at the...

Hi Baluncore, Thank you for the partial answer, the shaft was actually designed and manufactured badly, there are just cloth wires moving over it (over it and not around it) but it is oversized which makes it very heavy and therefore the weight of the tapes very negligible and there aren't...

I'm a mechanical engineer and I am more specialized in structural calculations than dynamic calculations and now I'm faced with a basic dynamic problem and would need some help. I have a solid cylinder (shaft) that I want to rotate around its axis. The cylinder is supported by two bearings at...