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JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN
Volume 123, Issue 1, Pages 118-124Publisher
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.1338118
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Robust gear designs consider not only crack initiation, but crack propagation trajectories for a fail-safe design. In actual gear operation, the magnitude as well as the position of the force changes as the gear rotates through the mesh. A study to determine the effect of moving gear tooth load on crack propagation predictions was performed. Two-dimensional analysis of an involute spur gear and three-dimensional analysis of a spiral-bevel pinion gear using the finite element method and boundary element method were studied and compared to experiments. A modified theory for predicting gear crack propagation paths bused on the criteria of Erdogam and Sih [18] was investigated. Crack simulation based on calculated stress intensity factors and mixed mode crack angle prediction techniques rising a simple static analysis in which the tooth load was located at the highest point of single tooth contact was validated. For three-dimensional analysis, however, the analysis was valid only as long as the crack did not approach the contact region on the tooth.
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