scholarly journals Study on Wear Characteristics Evolution of Helical Gear With Linear Initial Defect

Author(s):  
Yuqi Zhu ◽  
Wei Yuan ◽  
Qianjian Guo ◽  
Liguo Zhang ◽  
Wenhua Wang ◽  
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Abstract The initial defects have greatly affected the gear transmission under harsh working conditions in the fields of wind power and ships. The influence of linear initial defects on the evolution of wear characteristics of helical gears was studied. The laser marking device was used to process the linear initial defect along the tooth width direction, and the gear without initial defect was used for comparison. It can be concluded that the linear initial defect changed the meshing state of the gear tooth, and greatly shortened the normal wear life of the gear, the normal wear life of the gear is shortened by about 45%, and the wear rate in the stable wear stage is increased by about 56%, a great deal of pitting corrosion and plastic flow on the tooth surface occurred in the pitch circle position of the defective gear. In addition, the lubrication condition deteriorated in the later period caused by lubricating oil pollution and the hard particles falling off the gearbox bearings entered the meshing surface and the emerged crack, which further accelerated the wear process of gear.

2020 ◽  
Vol 143 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingxiang Meng ◽  
Yaping Zhao ◽  
Jian Cui ◽  
Tonghao Dou

Abstract The arc-toothed cylindrical worm has an arc tooth profile in a section, which may be the axial section, the normal section, or an offsetting plane of the worm helical surface. The meshing principle for a gearing containing such a worm is established. The normal vector of instantaneous contact line is determined in the natural frame and the meshing performance parameters are obtained without the help of the curvature parameters of the worm helical surface to ensure the established meshing principle is concise and practical. The numerical results show that the worm working length can be beyond half of the thread length and the meshing zone of the worm pair can cover most of the worm gear tooth surface. The instantaneous contact lines are uniformly distributed and the worm pair forms double-line contact. The numerical outcomes of the induced principal curvature show that the contact stress level between the teeth is higher in the middle of the worm gear tooth surface and near its dedendum. The forming condition of the lubricating oil film is poorer in the middle of the worm gear tooth surface and from addendum to dedendum as demonstrated by the numerical results of the sliding angle. The normal arc-toothed worm lathed by an offsetting cutter is recommended to apply in industry after various researches and analyses. The cutting geometric condition of the worm is investigated quantitatively. It is discovered that the rule of the cutter working relief angle changes along the cutting edge during lathing the worm.


Author(s):  
Toshihiko Ichihashi ◽  
Yutaka Takakura ◽  
Susumu Matsumoto

The reduction in viscosity of Automatic Transmission Fluids (ATFs) for improving fuel economy results in a reduction in transmission gear fatigue life due to occurring pitting. The aim of this study is to establish a suitable test condition for evaluating differentiation in the gear pitting life between ATFs by using a Forschungsstelle fur Zahnrader und Getriebebau (FZG). In this study FZG gear sets were modified so that gear teeth were misaligned and the contact tooth width was shortened by offset in the direction of the shaft. The fatigue pitting life in response to ATFs under this modified FZG test condition was of the same order as that obtained in the actual transmission test under a severely offset condition. A sulfur-containing additive could play a role on the gear tooth life under severe condition, which was most likely attributed to tribofilm for motion on the gear tooth surface.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 725-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Mark

A method is developed for analytically reconstructing the geometric deviations of the running surface of a gear tooth from a perfect involute surface. The method uses standard profile and lead deviation measurements and is applicable to both helical and spur gears. The reconstruction is carried out by using normalized Legendre polynomials. For this class of functions, it is shown that the optimum locations of the profile and lead deviation measurements are the locations of the zeros of the Legendre polynomial of degree equal to the number of profile or lead deviation measurements taken–after appropriate normalization of the tooth width or depth, as appropriate. A least squares fit procedure for establishing a common origin of ordinates for sets of profile and lead deviation measurements is formulated, and its solution is carried out in closed form. Account is taken of the noninsignificant errors that typically arise in profile and lead deviation measurements so that the final analytically reconstructed tooth surface is free of inconsistencies.


Author(s):  
Ravi Datt Yadav ◽  
Anant Kumar Singh ◽  
Kunal Arora

Fine finishing of spur gears reduces the vibrations and noise and upsurges the service life of two mating gears. A new magnetorheological gear profile finishing (MRGPF) process is utilized for the fine finishing of spur gear teeth profile surfaces. In the present study, the development of a theoretical mathematical model for the prediction of change in surface roughness during the MRGPF process is done. The present MRGPF is a controllable process with the magnitude of the magnetic field, therefore, the effect of magnetic flux density (MFD) on the gear tooth profile has been analyzed using an analytical approach. Theoretically calculated MFD is validated experimentally and with the finite element analysis. To understand the finishing process mechanism, the different forces acting on the gear surface has been investigated. For the validation of the present roughness model, three sets of finishing cycle experimentations have been performed on the spur gear profile by the MRGPF process. The surface roughness of the spur gear tooth surface after experimentation was measured using Mitutoyo SJ-400 surftest and is equated with the values of theoretically calculated surface roughness. The results show the close agreement which ranges from −7.69% to 2.85% for the same number of finishing cycles. To study the surface characteristics of the finished spur gear tooth profile surface, scanning electron microscopy is used. The present developed theoretical model for surface roughness during the MRGPF process predicts the finishing performance with cycle time, improvement in the surface quality, and functional application of the gears.


Author(s):  
Masao Nakagawa ◽  
Dai Nishida ◽  
Deepak Sah ◽  
Toshiki Hirogaki ◽  
Eiichi Aoyama

Planetary gear trains (PGTs) are widely used in various machines owing to their many advantages. However, they suffer from problems of noise and vibration due to the structural complexity and giving rise to substantial noise, vibration, and harshness with respect to both structures and human users. In this report, the sound level from PGTs is measured in an anechoic chamber based on human aural characteristic, and basic features of sound are investigated. Gear noise is generated by the vibration force due to varying gear tooth stiffness and the vibration force due to tooth surface error, or transmission error (TE). Dynamic TE is considered to be increased because of internal and external meshing. The vibration force due to tooth surface error can be ignored owing to almost perfect tooth surface. A vibration force due to varying tooth stiffness could be a major factor.


Author(s):  
Kaihong Zhou ◽  
Jinyuan Tang ◽  
Tao Zeng

New geometry of generating spiral bevel gear is proposed. The key idea of the new proposed geometry is that the gear tooth surface geometry can be investigated in a developed curved surface based on the planar engagement principle. It is proved that the profile curve on the back of generating cone surface is a conical involute curve. The equations of generated gear tooth surface are achieved by the conical involute curve sweeping along the tooth trace of gear. The obtained equations are explicit and independent of the machine-tool settings. This differs from previous studies. The developed theory is illustrated with numerical examples to compare with the previous method, the comparison approves that the method is possible in this way. The new method indicates that there are new solutions to the design the production of spiral bevel gear.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. P. Abioye ◽  
P. Agamuthu ◽  
A. R. Abdul Aziz

Soil and surface water contamination by used lubricating oil is a common occurrence in most developing countries. This has been shown to have harmful effects on the environment and human beings at large. Bioremediation can be an alternative green technology for remediation of such hydrocarbon-contaminated soil. Bioremediation of soil contaminated with 5% and 15% (w/w) used lubricating oil and amended with 10% brewery spent grain (BSG), banana skin (BS), and spent mushroom compost (SMC) was studied for a period of 84 days, under laboratory condition. At the end of 84 days, the highest percentage of oil biodegradation (92%) was recorded in soil contaminated with 5% used lubricating oil and amended with BSG, while only 55% of oil biodegradation was recorded in soil contaminated with 15% used lubricating oil and amended with BSG. Results of first-order kinetic model to determine the rate of biodegradation of used lubricating oil revealed that soil amended with BSG recorded the highest rate of oil biodegradation (0.4361 day−1) in 5% oil pollution, while BS amended soil recorded the highest rate of oil biodegradation (0.0556 day−1) in 15% oil pollution. The results of this study demonstrated the potential of BSG as a good substrate for enhanced remediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soil at low pollution concentration.


1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Shunmugam ◽  
S.V.R. Surya Narayana ◽  
V. Jayaprakash

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Junichi Hongu ◽  
Ryohei Horita ◽  
Takao Koide

Abstract This study proposes a modification of the Matsumoto equation using a directional parameter of tooth surfaces to adapt various gear finishing processes. The directional parameters of a contact surface, which affect oil film formations, have been discussed in the field of tribology; but this effect has been undetermined on the meshing gear tooth surfaces having directional machining marks. Thus, this paper investigates the relationship between the gear frictional coefficients and the directional parameters (based on ISO25178) of their tooth surfaces with the various finishing processes; and modifies the Matsumoto equation by introducing a new directional parameter to augment the various gear finishing processes. Our findings indicate that through optimizing the coefficient of the correction term the include the new directional parameter, the calculated friction values using the modified Matsumoto equation correlate more highly to the experimental friction values than that using the unmodified Matsumoto equation.


2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (9) ◽  
pp. 969-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Radzevich

In this paper, a novel modified scheme and effective computer representation for design of a plunge shaving cutter is presented. The paper aims to develop a novel design of shaving cutter for plunge shaving of precision involute gears. The study is carried out on the premise of satisfaction of the fifth necessary condition of proper part surface generation (PSG) when designing the plunge shaving cutter. In the current study, the author’s earlier developed DG/K method of surface generation is used together with the principal elements of analytical mechanics of gears. (The DG/K method is based on fundamental results obtained in differential geometry of surfaces, and on kinematics of multi-parametric motion of a rigid body in the E3 space. The interested reader may wish to go for details to the monograph: Radzevich, S.P., Fundamentals of Surface Generation, Monograph, Kiev, Rastan, 2001, 592 pp., and to: Radzevich, S.P., Sculptured Surface Machining on Multi-Axis NC Machine, Monograph, Kiev, Vishcha Schola, 1991, 192 pp.) In the particular case under consideration, the method employs (a) an analytical description of the gear tooth surface to be machined, (b) configuration of the plunge shaving cutter relative to the involute gear, (c) analytical representation of the coordinate systems transformations, and (d) the fifth condition of proper PSG that is adapted to finishing of precision involute gears. The fifth condition of proper PSG is investigated in the paper. On the premise of the obtained results of the investigation, a novel design of plunge shaving cutter for finishing of precision involute gears is proposed. The developed novel design of plunge shaving cutter can be used on shaving machines available on the market, e.g. on Gleason’s new Genesis™ 130SV computer numerical control (CNC) shaving machine.


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