Research on Axisymmetric Vibration of Gear with Stepped Variable Thickness
Ultrasonic gear honing is a kind of precision processing technology with great application prospect. The gear is a special kind of load in ultrasonic machining, and its vibration characteristic and natural frequency has great influence on processing frequency of the system. According to the structure characteristic of the gear with stepped variable thickness, its equations of axisymmetric bending vibration frequency were derived on the basis of the thick plate theory in this paper, and then the gear’s natural frequency is obtained which is in accordance with the results of FEM computation. Besides, the main factors affecting the calculation accuracy are analyzed with some examples in this paper The analysis shows that within the application range of Mindlin’s plate theory, the gears’ frequency obtained by the suggested method is accurate.