Study on Integrated Design Method for Series Traction Mechanism of Heavy Machinery Based on Virtual Prototyping

The integrated design method of series traction mechanism of heavy machinery was studied based on virtual prototyping. The overall research program was proposed. Furthermore, Based on this program, the computing system with the entity finite element based on ANSYS software and the computing system with equivalent beam element based on Matlab software were developed. Moreover, with two systems, for typical structure traction mechanism of heavy machinery, it was optimized. The study in the paper provides a new design method for design and development of series traction mechanism of heavy machinery.