Abstract

Drive is one of the most vital elements of technological machines, transport equipment and vehicles. Its selection process is to ensure appropriate motion parameters, that it why mechanical analysis is crucial. Modern CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) tools facilitate and accelerate designers’ work, but they can also be misleading if obtained results are misinterpreted. Scepticism with regard to computer simulations is indispensable so as not to hastily recognise something as an ultimate solution to a given problem hastily. In the software based on the visualisations of designed systems, a user is usually not able to influence the motion-describing equations and the method of solving them directly. Most results can yet be evaluated on the basis of the mathematical descriptions of systems under consideration.  
This is the procedure which I used to conduct the verification and validation of a model created with the application of a CAE tool. In the article I described the object of the research, the process of its preparation and analysis as well as the results which eventually determine the usefulness of the selected technique in the modelling of vehicle drive mechanics. I named the problems related to the creating of simulations and I suggested solutions to them. The activities carried out provide information helpful in the correct use of the tools that facilitate calculations as well as in the interpretation of the results.