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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCES
Volume 253, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2023.108329
Keywords
Spiral bevel gear; Loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA); Tooth compliance; Loaded transmission error (LTE); Contact pattern
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This paper presents a semi-analytical method for loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) in analyzing the meshing of spiral bevel gears. The method combines analytical formulas with finite element analysis (FEA) results to calculate tooth deformation and contact force. An optimization model is used to find the potential contact points, and a contact judgement strategy is proposed to detect contact at the ends of contact curves. The accuracy and efficiency of the method are demonstrated through a numerical instance under different load torques, and its ability to analyze gears with local defects or cracks is highlighted.
Loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) is an important tool for analyzing the meshing of spiral bevel gears. This paper presents a semi-analytical LTCA method, where the analytical formulas are used to calculate the tooth deformation and contact force, with partial coefficients corrected by finite element analysis (FEA) results. Based on Tredgold's Approximation, the tooth is sliced, of which the flank is determined by simulating the manufacturing process. In order to calculated the potential contact curves of a real gear pair, an optimization model is established to find the points more likely to be in contact within the range of contact curves obtained by the help of roll angle surfaces. The compliance of tooth is modeled as a combination of two contributions, where the deformation of cantilever beam under load is used to determine the global deformation, and the local contact deformation is obtained by Hertz line contact assumption. A contact judgement strategy is proposed to detect the contact of the slices at ends of contact curves, and the correction coefficients are introduced in the tooth deformation to consider the coupling effect among slices. In the end, a numerical instance of LTCA under different load torques is provided, which demonstrates the accuracy and efficiency of the presented LTCA method by comparisons with results of FEA. This method can be easily modified to analyze other gear pairs and has the ability to be extended to simulate the gears with local defects or cracks.
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