scholarly journals Vibroacoustic Modeling and Path Control of Air-Borne Axle Whine Noise

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 248362
Author(s):  
Dong Guo ◽  
Guohua Sun
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Loss ◽  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Contact Process ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact ◽  
Vehicle Noise ◽  
Gear Mesh

The axle whine noise will eventually affect the vehicle noise performance. In this study, a systematic modeling approach is developed to analyze the axle whine problem by considering the hypoid gear mesh from the tooth contact process as well as the system dynamics effect with gear design parameters and shaft-bearing-housing system taken into account. Moreover, the tuning of the dominant air-borne path is modeled analytically by using the sound transmission loss idea. First, gear tooth load distribution results are obtained in a 3-dimensional loaded tooth contact analysis program. Then mesh parameters are synthesized and applied to a linear multibody gear dynamic model to obtain dynamic mesh and bearing responses. The bearing responses are used as the excitation force to a housing finite element model. Finally, the vibroacoustic analysis of the axle is performed using the boundary element method; sound pressure responses in the axle surface are then simulated. Transmission losses of different panel partitions are included in the final stage to guide the tuning of air-borne paths to reduce the radiated axle whine noise. The proposed approach gives a more in-depth understanding of the axle whine generation and therefore can further facilitate the system design and trouble-shooting.

Stress Analysis of Spherical Gear Sets

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Chi Chao ◽  
Chung-Biau Tsay
Keyword(s):  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Contact Analysis ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact ◽  
Contact Points ◽  
Tooth Surfaces ◽  
Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Spherical Gear

The spherical gear is a new type of gear proposed by Mitome et al. [1]. Different from that of the conventional spur or helical gear sets, the spherical gear set can allow variable shaft angles and large axial misalignments without gear interference during the gear drive meshing [1, 2]. Geometrically, the spherical gear has two types of gear tooth profiles, the concave tooth and convex tooth. In practical transmission applications, the contact situation of a spherical gear set is very complex. To obtain a more realistic simulation result, the loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) has been performed by employing the finite element method (FEM). According to the derived mathematical model of spherical gear tooth surfaces, an automatic meshes generation program for three-dimensional spherical gears has been developed. Beside, tooth contact analysis (TCA) of spherical gears has been performed to simulate the contact points of the spherical gear set. Furthermore, the contact stress contours of spherical gear tooth surfaces and bending stress of tooth roots have been investigated by giving the design parameters, material properties, loadings and boundary conditions of spherical gears.

A Novel Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis Procedure with Application to Internal-External Straight Bevel Gear Mesh in Pericyclic Drive

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Tanmay D. Mathur ◽  
Edward C. Smith ◽  
Robert C. Bill
Keyword(s):  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Contact Analysis ◽  
Bevel Gear ◽  
Gear Train ◽  
Initial Surface ◽  
Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Number Of Teeth ◽  
Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis

Abstract A comprehensive numerical loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) model is proposed for straight bevel gears that exhibit large number of teeth in contact, well beyond involute line of action limits. This kind of contact is observed when the meshing gears have conformal surfaces, as in a Pericyclic mechanical transmission, and is traditionally analysed using finite element simulations. The Pericyclic drive is kinematically similar to an epicyclic bevel gear train, and is characterized by load sharing over large number of teeth in an internal-external bevel gear mesh, large shaft angles (175° - 178°), nutational gear motion, and high reduction ratio. The contact region spreads over a large area on the gear tooth flank due to high contacting surface conformity. Thus, a thick plate Finite Strip method (FSM) was utilized to accurately calculate the gear tooth bending deflection. Based on tooth deformation calculation model, and accounting for initial surface separation, a variational framework is developed to simultaneously solve for load distribution and gear tooth deformation. This is followed by calculation of contact stress, bending stress, mesh stiffness, and transmission error. The results demonstrate the high power density capabilities of the Pericyclic drive and potential for gear noise reduction. The model developed herein is applied with real gear tooth surfaces, as well.

The Stress Analysis on Spur Gear Meshing Simulation

2013 ◽  
Vol 392 ◽  
pp. 151-155
Author(s):  
Zheng Li ◽  
Yang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Nonlinear Behavior ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact ◽  
Reliable Model ◽  
Nonlinear Behaviors ◽  
Meshing Process

The gear meshing is a very complicated process due to the nonlinear behaviors during the teeth contact. It is necessary to build a reliable model to simulate gear meshing process which can consider geometry and boundary conditions nonlinear behavior in gear tooth contact analysis. This paper propose a 3D finite element model to simulate the meshing process of a pair of spur gears, and then carry out the gear tooth contact analysis with the consideration of nonlinear behaviors. The results and relevant discussions will indicate and explain some significant phenomena of the gear tooth contact characteristics in gear meshing process.

An Automated Design Search for Single and Double-Planet Planetary Gear Sets

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Kwon ◽  
A. Kahraman ◽  
H. K. Lee ◽  
H. S. Suh
Keyword(s):  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Planetary Gear ◽  
Automated Design ◽  
Geometric Design ◽  
System Level ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Planetary Gear Sets

Design of planetary gear sets is more involved than the design of their counter-shaft counterparts as it involves simultaneous design of a set of internal and external gear meshes while complying with a large number of systems and gear mesh related requirements for assembly, durability, noise, and efficiency. A manual iterative design process often results in suboptimal designs that fail to meet all these requirements simultaneously. In this paper, a methodology for an automated design search of single and double-planet planetary gear sets is proposed. With the input of a number of system-level constraints associated with the spacing and phasing of the planets, and acceptable ranges of basic geometric design parameters, this methodology defines a large design space in that a large number of geometric design concepts are identified and checked for any interferences. The external and internal meshes of these concepts are evaluated by using computationally efficient loaded gear tooth contact analysis model to predict their performance metrics such as transmission error amplitudes and contact and root stresses. They are then rank-ordered based on their performance metrics to identify balanced planetary gear set designs meeting all requirements equally well. At the end, results of an example design search were presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology in defining a balanced solution that is acceptable in terms of all of its requirements.

Dynamic Analysis of Gear Mesh for Gear Pump Based on ANSYS Workbench

2013 ◽  
Vol 706-708 ◽  
pp. 1290-1293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zhao ◽  
Qing Qing Lv ◽  
Li Quan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Contact Stress ◽  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Corrosion Damage ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Gear Pump ◽  
Three Dimension ◽  
Tooth Contact ◽  
Gear Teeth ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Ansys Workbench

Based on the FEA software ANSYS Workbench, the soft body dynamics performance of the gear pump gear mesh of a hydraulic pump company was analyzed. In the practical engineering applications, gear pump gear teeth are effected by alternating pressure in the two working cavity. It can cause pitting corrosion damage for gear tooth, and even cause tooth crack and fracture. At first, a three dimension finite element models of the gear pump gear teeth was established. In the start-up process, the gear pump tooth mesh deputy of tooth contact stress strain and dynamic characteristics of gear teeth was analyzed. Obtain the velocity curves, acceleration curve and tooth contact stress and strain dynamic curves of the tooth of gear pump. Providing a new analysis method for gear pump of gear Structure design and having a practical application value.

Loaded Tooth Contact Pattern Analysis for Strain Wave Gear With Non-Elliptical Wave Generator

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyuan Yu
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Tooth Surface ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Contact Pattern ◽  
Strain Wave ◽  
Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact ◽  
Wave Generator

Abstract This paper presents a new non-elliptical wave generator for strain wave gear to improve its contact pattern quality. The new wave generator has a polynomial profile at one cross section, then crowned along the lead direction. The lead crowning uses a parabolic function with crowning amount controlled by parabolic coefficient. Loaded tooth contact pattern analysis based on finite element method is used to evaluate the new design. The result shows that the new design will avoid the edge contact between wave generator and flexspline, which reduces contact pressure and improve the wearing life of the gear. It also improves the contact pattern quality of the tooth surface. Comparing with elliptical wave generator, the new wave generator with polynomial profile and lead parabolic crowned surface offers more design freedom to improve strain wave gear’s performance. The parametric equation of the new wave generator is defined intuitively, and it can be easily adapted for any type of strain wave gear. Furthermore, the finite element model for the strain wave gear is a new development and application for Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis (LTCA).

Tooth contact analysis of a curvilinear gear set with modified pinion tooth geometry

2011 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 975-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y-C Chen ◽  
M-L Gu
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Contact Analysis ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Stress Distributions ◽  
Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact ◽  
Numerical Examples ◽  
Bearing Contact ◽  
Parallel Axis

This article investigated the contact behaviours of a modified curvilinear gear set for parallel-axis transmission, which exhibits a pre-designed parabolic transmission error (TE) and localized bearing contact. The proposed gear set is composed of a modified pinion with curvilinear teeth and an involute gear with curvilinear teeth. Tooth contact analysis enabled the authors to explore the influences of assembly errors and design parameters on TEs and contact ellipses of this gear set. It is observed that TEs were continuous and the contact ellipses were localized in the middle of the tooth flanks, even under assembly errors. Finite-element contact analysis was performed to study stress distributions under different design parameters. In addition, numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the contact characteristics of the modified curvilinear gear set.

Tooth Contact Analysis of Longitudinal Cycloidal-Crowned Helical Gears With Circular Arc Teeth

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Shiang Wang ◽  
Zhang-Hua Fong
Keyword(s):  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Longitudinal Direction ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Helical Gear ◽  
Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact ◽  
Circular Arc ◽  
Tooth Flank ◽  
Assembly Error

This paper proposes a new type of double-crowned helical gear that can be continuously cut on a modern Cartesian-type hypoid generator with two face-hobbing head cutters and circular-arc cutter blades. The gear tooth flank is double crowned with a cycloidal curve in the longitudinal direction and a circular arc in the profile direction. To gauge the sensitivity of the transmission errors and contact patterns resulting from various assembly errors, this paper applies a tooth contact analysis technique and presents several numerical examples that show the benefit of the proposed double-crowned helical gear set. In contrast to a conventional helical involute gear, the tooth bearing and transmission error of the proposed gear set are both controllable and insensitive to gear-set assembly error.

Research on Lead Modification of Cylindrical Gears with Consideration of System Deformation

2011 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 696-699
Author(s):  
Shun Xiong ◽  
Yue Chun Zhang ◽  
Ping Liu ◽  
Wen Wang ◽  
Huang Zuo
Keyword(s):  
Calculation Result ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Contact Analysis ◽  
Deformation Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact Analysis ◽  
Tooth Contact ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Cylindrical Gears ◽  
Concrete Mixer

A gearbox in concrete mixer truck was used as an example to study the effect of system deformation on the misalignment of gear mesh by applying the methods of FEA and tooth contact analysis. The variation of misalignment under different stiffness of system was compared. Gear misalignment was calculated on the basis of the system deformation analysis. The calculation result was used to determine the parameter of lead modification. Finally, it is proved that the method of determining lead modification parameter is reliable by the simulation analysis.

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