Effect of Rim Thickness on Tooth Root Stress and Mesh Stiffness of Internal Gears

Author(s):  
F. Karpat ◽  
B. Engin ◽  
O. Dogan ◽  
C. Yuce ◽  
T. G. Yilmaz

In recent years, internal gears are used commonly in a number of automotive and aerospace applications especially in planetary gear drives. Planetary gears have many advantages such as compactness, large torque-to-weight ratio, large transmission ratios, reduced noise and vibrations. Although internal gears have many advantages, there are not enough studies on it. Designing an internal gear mechanism includes two important parameters. The gear mesh stiffness which is the main excitation source of the system. In this paper, 2D gear models are developed in order to compute gear mesh stiffness for various rim thicknesses and different rim shapes of the internal gear design. Effects of root stress with varying rim thickness and some tooth parameters are investigated by using 2D gear models. The stress calculated according to ISO 6336 and the stresses calculated against FEM are compared. These results are well-matched. It is observed that when the rim thicknesses are increased, both the maximum bending stresses and gear mesh stiffness are decreased considerably.

2011 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
Yu Tang ◽  
Shan Chang ◽  
Zhi Qiang Wang ◽  
Kun Zhang

In order to minimize the fluctuation of gear transmission error (GTE) about the planetary gear transmission. A method was developed to deciding tooth profile modification curves of planetary transmission. According to the condition of the invariable design load, computing the dynamic characteristics of the planetary transmission system under modified and un-modified gear. At the same time, the compare is carried through of the dynamic characteristics for modified and un-modified gear. The results of the dynamic calculation indicate that the profile modification method can make the amplitudes of gear mesh stiffness change calmness and reduce the amplitudes of gear mesh stiffness by this method in paper. At last, the conclusion can be obtained that the tooth profile modification can reduce the vibration and noise of the planetary transmission system.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qibin Wang ◽  
Yimin Zhang

A model is introduced for analyzing the influence of tooth shape deviations and assembly errors on the helical gear mesh stiffness, loaded transmission error, tooth contact stress and tooth root stress. The helical gear is approximated as a series of independent spur gear slices along axial direction whose face-width is relatively small. The relative position relationships among those sliced teeth in mesh are developed with tooth profile errors and the stiffness of the sliced tooth is calculated by the potential energy method. From the equilibriums of the forces, gear mesh stiffness, loaded transmission error, tooth contact stress and tooth root stress are calculated. Then two cases are presented for validation of the model. It is demonstrated that the model is effective for calculating the stiffness of helical gear pairs. Finally, the effects of the tooth tip reliefs, lead crown reliefs and misalignments on the gear mesh stiffness, transmission error, tooth contact stress and tooth root stress are analyzed. The results show that mesh stiffness decreases, loaded transmission error, the maximum tooth contact stress and the maximum tooth root stress grow with the increasing tooth tip relief, lead crown relief and misalignment. And tooth edge has concentrated tooth contact stresses with a gear misalignment.


Author(s):  
Peng Guan ◽  
Hans DeSmidt

This research explores parametric instabilities of the PGT driveline system and a stability-based method for ring gear rim thickness design. Parametric excitation of a planetary gear transmission (PGT) driveline system arises from two sources: 1) gear mesh stiffness variation, 2) Interaction between moving planets, flexible ring gear and boundary struts. Many researchers have studied the parametric instability of planetary gear transmissions due to gear mesh stiffness variation, however, the effect of interaction between moving planets, flexible ring and discrete boundary struts on parametric instabilities has not been fully studied before. Especially, for sufficiently thin ring gears, this kind of effect becomes even more significant. To illustrate the novel PGT rim design proposal, firstly, a structural dynamics model of a complete PGT driveline system with elastic ring gear supported by discrete boundary struts is established. Secondly, by applying Floquet method, the parametric instability behavior due to the second parametric excitation source is fully investigated. Lastly, the design guidelines for planetary gear transmission ring gear rim thickness are proposed based on system stability from a dynamical viewpoint. The analysis and results provide new and important insights into dynamics and design of lightweight planetary gear transmission ring gear rim.


2021 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 104291
Author(s):  
Andreas Beinstingel ◽  
Michael Keller ◽  
Michael Heider ◽  
Burkhard Pinnekamp ◽  
Steffen Marburg

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleš Prokop ◽  
Kamil Řehák ◽  
Martin Zubík ◽  
Pavel Novotný

Abstract The noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) plays an important role in the transmission area of automotive industry. To understand all the impacts on the gearbox’s global dynamic behavior it is necessary to gain information from a simplified model, create methods and get an appropriate and well correlated results with the experiment. The method itself can be afterwards reused for more complex transmission, which could be supported by other measurements. This paper deals with creation of a gearbox’s simplified model, including essential mechanisms as gear mesh stiffness, backlash, bearing stiffness and modal properties of the main components. Except for the presented model, more models with different difficulty levels are used. Numerical results are compared with data from experiment with good correlation.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-Chung Chen ◽  
Xu Feng Cheng ◽  
Siu-Tong Choi

Purpose This study aims to study the dynamic characteristics of a helical geared rotor-bearing system with composite material rotating shafts. Design/methodology/approach A finite element model of a helical geared rotor-bearing system with composite material rotating shafts is developed, in which the rotating shafts of the system are composed of composite material and modeled as Timoshenko beam; a rigid mass is used to represent the gear and their gyroscopic effect is taken into account; bearings are modeled as linear spring-damper; and the equations of motion are obtained by applying Lagrange’s equation. Natural frequencies, mode description, lateral responses, axial responses, lamination angles, lamination numbers, gear mesh stiffness and bearing damping coefficients are investigated. Findings The desired mechanical properties could be constructed using different lamination numbers and fiber included angles by composite rotating shafts. The frequency of the lateral module decreases as the included angle of the fibers and the principal shaft of the composite material rotating shaft increase. Because of the gear mesh stiffness increase, the resonance frequency of the coupling module of the system decreases, the lateral module is not influenced and the steady-state response decreases. The amplitude of the steady-state lateral and axial responses gradually decreases as the bearing damping coefficient increases. Practical implications The model of a helical geared rotor-bearing system with composite material rotating shafts is established in this paper. The dynamic characteristics of a helical geared rotor-bearing system with composite rotating shafts are investigated. The numerical results of this study can be used as a reference for subsequent personnel research. Originality/value The dynamic characteristics of the geared rotor-bearing system had been reported in some literature. However, the dynamic analysis of a helical geared rotor-bearing system with composite material rotating shafts is still rarely investigated. This paper shows some novel results of lateral and axial response results obtained by different lamination angles and different lamination numbers. In the future, it makes valuable contributions for further development of dynamic analysis of a helical geared rotor-bearing system with composite material rotating shafts.


Author(s):  
J. S. Rao ◽  
J. R. Chang ◽  
T. N. Shiau

Abstract A general finite element model is presented for determining the coupled bending-torsion natural frequencies and mode shapes of geared rotors. Uncoupled bending and torsion frequencies are obtained for examples available in literature and the present program is verified against these. The effect of the gear box is considered to determine the coupled frequencies. Parameters studied include the pressure angle, gear mesh stiffness, and bearing properties. The gear pressure angle is shown to have no effect on the natural frequencies of rotors supported on isotropic bearing supports. Several case studies with bending-torsion coupling are considered and the results obtained are compared with those available in literature. The results of a general rotor system with 8lodes are also presented.


2018 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Jeonghyun Park ◽  
Changjun Seo ◽  
Kwangsuck Boo ◽  
Heungseob Kim

Gear systems are extensively employed in mechanical systems since they allow the transfer of power with a variety of gear ratios. So gears cause the inherent deflections and deformations due to the high pressure which occurs between the meshing teeth when transmit power and results in the transmission error. It is usually assumed that the transmission error and variation of the gear mesh stiffness are the dominant excitation mechanisms. Predicting the static transmission error is a necessary condition to reduce noise radiated from the gear systems. This paper aims to investigate the effect of tooth profile modifications on the transmission error of helical gear. The contact stress analysis was implemented for different roll positions to find out the most critical roll angle in view point of root flank stress. The PPTE (peak-to-peak of transmission error) is estimated at the roll angles by different loading conditions with two dimensional FEM. The optimal profile modification from the root to the tip is proposed.


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