We are designing a press that should be capable of delivering 2500 N of force in
the rack.
• In order to design the mechanism for applying the load we need to know the
required torque in the gear to produce the necessary force.
• We’ll apply the desired force in the rack and
extract the moment reaction at the gear.
• We will use a “Remote Displacement” to
constrain the gear (instead of a fixed support)
because this type of constraint provides
rotational, as well as translational,
constraints.