Optimized design of antideaerating floating tower of airfloat rails based on ADAMS and ANSYS workbench
                                                YE Biqing, YUE Haohao, CAI Jian, SHANG Yaojun
                          (Mechanical Engineering Institute, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 450000, China)

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that during the unfolding of the solar wing, the airfloat hanging slider is biased to the side of the transverse rail,causing the air floating cushion fallen off and the transverse rail stuck, the stress and deformation of antideaerating floating tower of airfloat rails were studied. After the analysis of antideaerating floating tower of airfloat rails, a method based on the cosimulation of ADAMS and ANSYS Workbench was proposed. The threedimensional modeling of airfloat rail was established. Then, its multibody dynamics analysis model was established by importing the model into ADAMS .The maximum dynamic load of the antideaerating floating tower during the accelerating movement of the airfloat rail on one side of the load was obtained respectively through dynamic simulation analysis. The finite element model was established by ANSYS Workbench, and the static strength analysis of the antideaeraing floating tower was performed. The stress and deformation of the tower were calculated, and ANSYS Workbench was used to optimize the structural design of the tower, compared and analyzed antideaerating floating tower before and after optimization. The results indicate that the optimized antideaerating tower is greatly reduced in stress and deformation, which proves the feasibility of the optimized scheme.

Key words: airfloat rails; antideaerating floating tower; adams; ansys workbench; optimized design