Gear Shifting in a Sequential Gearbox

Application ID: 132461


This example illustrates the modeling of a sequential manual transmission, where the gears are selected sequentially with the help of a rotating drum. The shift drum has two grooves of specific profile carved around the circumference. As the drum rotates, the grooves on the drum guide a set of shift forks, which in turn, helps in engaging the required gear.

A transient multibody analysis is performed to simulate the gear shifting mechanism and compute the angular velocity of all the gears for the specified engine speed.

This model example illustrates applications of this type that would nominally be built using the following products: