scholarly journals Control of transmission error of high contact ratio spur gears with symmetric profile modifications

2020 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 103839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Pleguezuelos ◽  
Miryam B. Sánchez ◽  
José I. Pedrero
Author(s):  
R. G. Munro1 ◽  
D Palmer ◽  
L Morrish

A method is presented that allows the accurate measurement of the tooth pair stiffness of a pair of spur gears. The method reveals the stiffness behaviour throughout the full length of the normal path of contact and also into the extended contact region when tooth corner contact occurs. The method makes use of the properties of transmission error plots for mean and alternating components over a range of tooth loads (Harris maps). It avoids the usual problem when measuring tooth deflections that deflections of other test rig components are difficult to eliminate. Also included are predicted Harris maps for a pair of high contact ratio spur gears, showing the effects of various simplifying assumptions, together with a measured map.


Author(s):  
Nihat Yıldırım ◽  
Hakan I˙s¸c¸i ◽  
Abdullah Akpolat

Aerospace applications require special procedures for component design and manufacturing. Spur gears of different designs, because of their simpler geometries, are used in vital units-transmissions of helicopters and alike aerospace vehicles. In this study, performances of various profile designs of previously researched low and high contact ratio spur gears with some realistic design parameters are studied. Effects of the realistic parameters of variable tooth pair stiffness, relief shape, and adjacent pitch error on Transmission Error (TE), tooth loads and root stresses are presented; composition of these parameters determines the efficiency of the gearbox assembly. Detail of minimization of tooth root stress through optimized/proper design of relief is described. More comprehensive comparison of the gear tooth profile design cases is done to be able to guide aerospace transmission designers for practical applications with realistic parameters for each of the design cases. A preference order is done among the design cases, depending on effect of some design parameters on the results such as tooth loads, tooth root stresses, TE curves and peak-to-peak TE values.


Author(s):  
N Yildirim ◽  
R G Munro

This is the first of a series of papers on the design of the tooth profile relief of both low and high contact ratio spur gears and its effects on transmission error (TE) and tooth loads. A systematic approach to profile relief design is introduced. The process of profile relief analysis is based on a number of simplifying assumptions to ease the understanding of the relief design. Useful relief cases determined during the simplified analysis are further investigated, with realistic parameter values such as variable stiffness, manufacturing tolerances and so on, in other papers of the series. Experimental validation of the cases proven to be good are also given in forthcoming papers. In the present paper, the systematic approach is applied to low contact ratio (LCR) spur gears first with some design regions and to high contact ratio (HCR) spur gears with some new and promising design regions and rules. Several smooth transmission error curves at different loads are shown to be possible for the relief designed, hence allowing a range of loads with uniform motion transfer. The advantages of HCRG over LCRG in terms of smooth TE curves and tooth load values are noted.


2019 ◽  
Vol 287 ◽  
pp. 01004
Author(s):  
José I. Pedrero ◽  
Miguel Pleguezuelos ◽  
Miryam B. Sánchez

Profile modifications are commonly used to avoid shocks between meshing gear teeth produced by the delay of the driven gear, and the subsequent sooner start of contact, due to the teeth deflections. A suitable tip relief at the driven tooth shifts the start of contact to the proper location at the theoretical inner point of contact. The shape of the relief governs the loading curve of the tooth pair, while the length of relief determines the intervals in which this actual loading curve differs from the theoretical one of unmodified teeth. As at least one tooth pair should be in contact at the unmodified involute profile interval, the length of modification should be smaller than the length of the intervals of two pair tooth contact; otherwise, a shock at the end of contact of the previous pair is unavoidable. However this problem does not occur for high contact ratio spur gears, in which at least two couples of teeth are in contact at any moment. In this work, a study on the load sharing and the quasi-static transmission error for high contact ratio spur gears with long profile modification has been performed, and a model for the tooth contact has been developed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-310
Author(s):  
Benny Thomas ◽  
K. Sankaranarayansamy ◽  
S. Ramachandra ◽  
Suresh Kumar S.P.

Asymmetric spur gears are finding application in many fields including aerospace propulsion and automobile which demand unidirectional or relatively higher load on one side of the gear flank. Design intend to maximise the load carrying capacity of the drive side of asymmetric gear by increasing the pressure angle is achieved at the expense of coast side capacity. Multiple solution for coast to drive side pressure angle exist for a given contact ratio and each of these have relative merits and demerits. In the present work asymmetric spur gears of theoretically equal contact ratio as that of corresponding symmetric gears are selected to investigate the change in gear tooth static transmission error and dynamic behaviour with coast and drive side pressure angle. Study shows that dynamic factor of normal contact ratio asymmetric spur gears below resonance speed are relatively lower than corresponding symmetric gears of same module, contact ratio, number of teeth, coast side pressure angle and fillet radii. Results also show that, coast and drive side pressure angle can be suitably selected for a given contact ratio to reduce the single tooth and double tooth contact static transmission error and dynamic factor of asymmetric spur gears.


1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anette Andersson

A model was used, where the total gear mesh stiffness was approximated by two constant stiffness levels, in order to analyze the influence of the contact ratio on the dynamic response of spur gears. Due to the stiffness variation there is parametric excitation of the transmission error, which generally causes tooth separation at certain critical rotational speeds. The present paper discloses a method to analytically calculate which contact ratio to use in order to avoid tooth separation near a specific critical rotational speed. [S1050-0472(00)02604-0]


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Tavakoli ◽  
D. R. Houser

A procedure for computing static transmission errors and tooth load sharing was developed for low and high contact ratio internal and external spur gears. A suitable optimization algorithm was used to minimize any combination of the harmonics of gear mesh frequency components of the static transmission error. Different combinations of tip and root relief may be used to achieve optimization. These include varying the starting point of relief and varying the magnitude of relief, and selecting the gear and/or the pinion teeth to be tip and/or root-relieved. Also, there exists an option for using either linear or parabolic relief. In addition to the presentation of optimal profile modifications, the effects of off-design loads, nonoptimum modifications, and random spacing errors are presented.


Author(s):  
Jiande Wang ◽  
Ian Howard

Compared to the commonly used Low Contact Ratio Spur Gears (LCRG), High Contact Ratio Spur Gears (HCRG) can provide higher power to weight ratio, and can also achieve smoother running with lower Transmission Error (TE) variations. To achieve the benefits of High Contact Ratio Spur Gears (HCRG), its tolerance to manufacturing errors and elastic deformation has to be increased. After various attempts by previous researchers, double scope tooth profile modifications have been seen as being of major interest showing great potential for improvements in most applications. Research presented in this paper concentrated on providing further proofs and verifications on the topic by using modern numerical methods and comprehensive analysis. Additionally, a general Bulk Tooth Rotation (BTR) type tooth profile modification is introduced and applied to the High Contact Ratio Spur Gears (HCRG) in order to improve the tooth profile design and some common higher order analysis is shown allowing further comments to be made.


Author(s):  
N Yildirim

With reference to the previous articles of the author(s) based on the systematic approach to the profile relief design of both low contact ratio and high contact ratio spur gears, some guidelines are drawn for the use of short and double reliefs of the HCRG profile design under the effect of realistic parameters like variable tooth stiffness and manufacturing errors regarding the profile relief values. Root stress of the double relief can be minimized by optimizing the maximum tooth load value, hence the tooth load diagram with constant and variable tooth stiffness. Interaction of the manufacturing errors with the relief parameters is put into a form of analytical relation between manufacturing grades, hence the manufacturing tolerance and some gear parameters such as contact ratio, base pitch, and the load at which the smooth transmission error curve is required. In case of double relief, design load plays a major role in its selection. A relation and also a tabular form of guideline are given: for the required manufacturing grade if the contact ratio and other gear parameters are known and for the minimum contact ratio required if the manufacturing grade of the gears are known for either of the two cases short and double reliefs.


Author(s):  
N Yaldirim ◽  
R G Munro

The second of a series of papers on the systematic approach to the profile relief design of both low contact ratio (LCR) and high contact ratio (HCR) spur gears and its effects on transmission error (TE) and tooth loads. Basics of the approach are given in the previous paper of the series. Application of the approach to HCR spur gears has produced two promising design cases, namely the short and long reliefs, with advantages and disadvantages. In this paper a new relief type, double relief, is introduced by making use of the two promising cases. Advantages of the two are brought together, with some compromise. The overall performance of the new relief type, however, is superior to the others in terms of peak-to-peak TE value, maximum tooth load value, rate of tooth loading and number of smooth TE curves, and hence in terms of the range of transmitted load with nearly uniform motion transfer. A procedure for compensation for adjacent pitch error (PE) with smooth TE curve at off-design load is also included.


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