Calculation of Spur Gear Tooth Flexibility by the Complex Potential Method

1985 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cardou ◽  
G. V. Tordion

Complex potentials have already been used to calculate analytically spur gear stresses. However, their application to the calculation of tooth flexibility is not so straightforward since displacements of interest are at the tooth contact point, which is a singular point for the equations being used. A method has been devised to circumvent this difficulty and to obtain the value of the displacement at each point of the line of action, and thus, the flexibility of a given pair of spur gears.

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cardou ◽  
G. V. Tordion

Bending stresses in spur gears have been obtained analytically using the Complex Potential Method of the two-dimensional theory of elasticity and conformal mapping of the tooth profile. Effects of profile shift and sliding friction on geometry factor have been studied for 20 deg pressure angle and numbers of teeth ranging from 20 to 150. It has been shown how these results can be applied to obtain a geometry factor corrected to include either the profile or the coefficient of friction effect in a given gear pair.


2010 ◽  
Vol 34-35 ◽  
pp. 429-434
Author(s):  
Ya Qun Hu ◽  
Ping Xia ◽  
Ke Xiang Wei

The interaction between a dislocation and circular inhomogeneity in 1D hexagonal quasicrystals is investigated. By using the complex potential method, explicit solutions of complex potentials are obtained. The image force acting on the dislocation are also derived. The results show that the interface attracts the dislocation inside both the matrix and the inhomogeneity under most condition. The attraction increase with the increase of the elastic constant of phason field and the phonon-phason coupling elastic constant.


1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Coy ◽  
C. Hu-Chih Chao

A method of selecting grid size for the finite element analysis of gear tooth deflection is presented. The method is based on a finite element study of two cylinders in line contact, where the criterion for establishing element size was that there be agreement with the classic Hertzian solution for deflection. Many previous finite element studies of gear tooth deflection have not included the full effect of the Hertzian deflection. The present results are applied to calculate deflection for the gear specimen used in the NASA spur gear test rig. Comparisons are made between the present results and the results of two other methods of calculation. The results have application in design of gear tooth profile modifications to reduce noise and dynamic loads.


2013 ◽  
Vol 633 ◽  
pp. 87-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Atanasovska ◽  
Radivoje Mitrovic ◽  
Dejan Momcilovic

The gear tooth profile has an immense effect on the main operating parameters of gear pairs (load capacity, working life, efficiency, vibrations, etc). In current engineering research and practice, there is a strong need to develop methods for tooth profile optimization. In this paper a new method for selecting the optimal tooth profile parameters of spur gears is described. This method has been named the Explicit Parametric Method (EPM). The addendum modification coefficient, radius of root curvature, and pressure angle of the basic rack for cylindrical gears, have been identified as the main tooth profile parameters of spur gears. Therefore, the EPM selects the optimal values for these three tooth profile parameters. Special attention has been paid to develop a method of adjustment for the particular working conditions and explicit optimization requirements. The EPM for optimal tooth profile parameters of gears uses contact nonlinear Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for calculation of deformations and stresses of gear pairs, in addition to explicit comparative diagrams for optimal tooth profile parameter selection.


2012 ◽  
Vol 236-237 ◽  
pp. 52-54
Author(s):  
Lin Yang ◽  
Qin He ◽  
Shu Yong Zhou ◽  
Wu Li

The fracture behavior of materials and structures are always caused by stress concentration near the defects in materials. This article describes the complex potential method for solving plane problems of quasicrystalline materials with defects. In order to prove effectiveness and success of the method, an example is given, and the results have very important significance in studying two-dimensional quasicrystals.


1975 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. S. Akin ◽  
J. J. Mross ◽  
D. P. Townsend

Lubricant jet flow impingement and penetration depth into a gear tooth space were measured at 4920 and 2560 using a 8.89-cm- (3.5-in.) pitch dia 8 pitch spur gear at oil pressures from 7 × 104 to 41 × 104 N/m2 (10 psi to 60 psi). A high speed motion picture camera was used with xenon and high speed stroboscopic lights to slow down and stop the motion of the oil jet so that the impingement depth could be determined. An analytical model was developed for the vectorial impingement depth and for the impingement depth with tooth space windage effects included. The windage effects on the oil jet were small for oil drop size greater than 0.0076 cm (0.003 in.). The analytical impingement depth compared favorably with experimental results above an oil jet pressure of 7 × 104 N/m2 (10 psi). Some of this oil jet penetrates further into the tooth space after impingement. Much of this post impingement oil is thrown out of the tooth space without further contacting the gear teeth.


1974 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Townsend ◽  
E. V. Zaretsky

Tests were conducted at 350 K (170 deg F) with groups of 8.9 cm (3.5-in.)-pitch-diameter spur gear with and without tip relief made of consumable-electrode vacuum melted (CVM) Super Nitralloy (5Ni-2Al) and CVM AISI M-50 steel. The AISI M-50 gears without tip relief had lives approximately 50 percent longer than the Super Nitralloy gears without tip relief. However, the Super Nitralloy gears with tip relief had lives equal to the AISI M-50 gears without tip relief. The difference in lives were not statistically significant. All gears failed by classical pitting fatigue at the pitch circle. However, the AISI M-50 gears with tip relief failed by tooth fracture. AISI M-50 gear sets without tip relief having a spalled gear tooth which were deliberately overrun after spalling had occurred, failed by tooth fracture.


Author(s):  
M.S. Shunmugam ◽  
N. Siva Prasad

AbstractA fillet curve is provided at the root of the spur gear tooth, as stresses are high in this portion. The fillet curve may be a trochoid or an arc of suitable size as specified by designer. The fillet stress is influenced by the fillet geometry as well as the number of teeth, modules, and the pressure angle of the gear. Because the relationship is nonlinear and complex, an artificial neural network and a backpropagation algorithm are used in the present work to predict the fillet stresses. Training data are obtained from finite element simulations that are greatly reduced using Taguchi's design of experiments. Each simulation takes around 30 min. The 4-5-1 network and a sigmoid activation function are chosen. TRAINLM function is used for training the network with a learning rate parameter of 0.01 and a momentum constant of 0.8. The neural network is able to predict the fillet stresses in 0.03 s with reasonable accuracy for spur gears having 25–125 teeth, a 1–5 mm module, a 0.05–0.45 mm fillet radius, and a 15°–25° pressure angle.


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