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How Ricardo predicts the life of motorcycle components

Futurities Year 20 n°4
By Pietro Del Negro – Ricardo
A design study of a centrifuge for separating water and plastic
A design study of a centrifuge for separating water and plastic

Abstract

Pietro Del Negro is a senior CAE engineer at Ricardo’s Rimini Technical Centre in Italy, specialising in motorcycle and light mobility applications, including simulation, analysis, and systems integration for global OEMs and tier-one suppliers.

In this article, Del Negro explains how Ricardo is developing solutions to support its customers to predict the lifecycle of motorcycle components, using finite element analysis (FEA) and fatigue analysis.

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The globally leading software for finite element based fatigue life prediction

FEMFAT is a universally applicable software program for the fatigue analysis of statically and/or dynamically loaded components and complete systems.

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A design study of a centrifuge for separating water and plastic

This paper presents the preliminary simulation study of a typical centrifuge currently produced by Gamma Meccanica. The objective of this study is to evaluate the behaviour of the centrifuge using moving particle simulation and discrete element method (MPS-DEM) simulation techniques with Particleworks 7.2.1 to gain a better understanding of phenomena that are impossible to monitor experimentally.

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