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MartinLoland
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Homework Statement
Hello! I am doing some rough design on an elevator-system and I have now come to the brake. Here is my system:
The text is norwegian but "rdriv" in the first image is "Rdrivskive" in the second image and it's this wheel that is dragging the rope.
The "Brems" is where I am going to put the brake. And I am trying to figure out how much torque it must deliver to stop the elevator in time.
Required stopping time: 2 seconds
Velocity of elevator: 5 m/s
Angular velocity of drive-shaft ("Drivaksling") before braking: 43,63 rad/s
Homework Equations
(1) T = I*α
(2) Work = T*θ
(3) KEθ = 1/2*I*ω2
(4) KEx = 1/2*m*v2
The Attempt at a Solution
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This means that the driveshaft must have an angular acceleration of -23,3 rad/s^2 and travels about 40 rad in the two seconds it uses to brake.
If I only consider the driveshaft I could have used T=I⋅α where I is the moment of inertia of the driveshaft to calculate the required torque.
But there is a lot of energy in the system like vertical motion of the elevator and rotational energy in the gears that I guess that I have to take into consideration.
So here is my thought
If I calculate and add all the energy in the system (KEθ of gears and shafts and KEx of elevator and counterweight. Can I use eqn. (2) to calulate the torque since I have the θ it travels and all the energy I have to remove from the system? Or is this only for constant velocity?
Thanks :)