A Study of the Relationship Between the Dynamic Factors and the Dynamic Transmission Error of Spur Gear Pairs

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. K. Tamminana ◽  
A. Kahraman ◽  
S. Vijayakar
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Deformable Body ◽  
Nonlinear Behavior ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Dynamic Factors ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dynamic Transmission Error ◽  
Torque Values

In this study, two different dynamic models, a finite-element-based deformable-body model and a simplified discrete model, are developed to predict dynamic behavior of spur gear pairs. Dynamic transmission error (DTE) and dynamic factors (DF) defined based on the gear mesh loads, tooth loads and bending stresses are computed for a number of unmodified and modified spur gears within a wide range of rotational speed for different involute contact ratios and torque values. Although similar models were proposed in the past, they were neither fully validated nor equipped to predict both DTE and different forms of DF. Accordingly, this study focuses on (i) validation of both models through an extensive set of experimental data obtained from a set of tests using spur gear having unmodified and modified tooth profiles, and (ii) establishment of a direct link between DTE and different forms of DF, especially the ones based on tooth forces and the root stresses. The predicted DF and DTE values are related to each other through simplified formulas. Impact of nonlinear behavior, such as tooth separations and jump discontinuities on DF, is also quantified.

The Dynamic Transmission Error and the Tooth Meshing Force Based on ANSYS/LS-DYNA

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyu Chen ◽  
Jinyuan Tang ◽  
Xin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Deformable Body ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Gear Transmission ◽  
Dynamic Phenomenon ◽  
Discrete Parameter ◽  
Body Model ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dynamic Transmission Error

Two dynamic models of meshing contact in gear transmission are established. The transient dynamic characteristics of the gear transmission along line of action were analyzed based on deformable-body model and discrete parameter model. The curves on the displacement, the speed and the meshing force of the gear tooth meshing node with the change of time were gotten. Dynamic transmission error curves and teeth loads were computed within a wide range of rotational speed for different torques and working conditions with and without friction force. The results of the dynamic transmission error and dynamic teeth loads are validated by comparing the calculating results with that of the former experimental data. The research provides basic data for analyzing the gear impact and predicting the fatigue life of gear tooth, and it is also beneficial for the optimum design of gear parameters and the understanding of the dynamic phenomenon of gear meshing impact.

Static and Dynamic Transmission Error Measurements of Helical Gear Pairs With Various Tooth Modifications

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Benatar ◽  
M. Handschuh ◽  
A. Kahraman ◽  
D. Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Nonlinear Behavior ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Helical Gear ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Test Machine ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Dynamic Transmission Error ◽  
Static Transmission Error

This paper presents a set of motion transmission error data for a family of helical gears having different profile and lead modifications operated under both low-speed (quasi-static) and dynamic conditions. A power circulatory test machine is used along with encoder and accelerometer-based transmission error measurement systems to quantify motion transmission behavior within wide ranges of torque and speed. Results of these experiments indicate that the tooth modifications impact the resultant static and dynamic transmission error amplitudes significantly. A design load is shown to exist for each gear pair of different modifications where static transmission error amplitude is minimum. Forced response curves and waterfall plots are presented to demonstrate that the helical gear pairs tested act linearly with no signs of nonlinear behavior such as tooth contact separations. Furthermore, static and dynamic transmission error amplitudes are observed to be nearly proportional, suggesting that static transmission error can be employed in helical gear dynamic models as the main gear mesh excitation. The data presented here is intended to fill a void in the literature by providing means for validation of load distribution and dynamic models of helical gear pairs.

Dynamic Transmission Error Measurements From Spur Gear Pairs Having Tooth Indexing Errors

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Anichowski ◽  
Ahmet Kahraman ◽  
David Talbot
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Transient Behavior ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Spur Gears ◽  
Transient Effects ◽  
Dynamic Factors ◽  
Frequency Domains ◽  
Error Dynamic ◽  
Dynamic Transmission Error

This paper complements recent investigations [Handschuh et al (2014), Talbot et al (2016)] of the influences of tooth indexing errors on dynamic factors of spur gears by presenting data on changes to the dynamic transmission error. An experimental study is performed using an accelerometer-based dynamic transmission error measurement system incorporated into a high-speed gear tester to establish baseline dynamic behavior of gears having negligible indexing errors, and to characterize changes to this baseline due to application of tightly-controlled intentional indexing errors. Spur test gears having different forms of indexing errors are paired with a gear having negligible indexing error. Dynamic transmission error of gear pairs under these error conditions is measured and examined in both time and frequency domains to quantify the transient effects induced by these indexing errors. Both measurements indicate clearly that the baseline dynamic response, dominated by well-defined resonance peaks and mesh harmonics, are complemented by non-mesh orders of transmission error due the transient behavior induced by indexing errors.

Effect of Involute Contact Ratio on Spur Gear Dynamics

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kahraman ◽  
G. W. Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Contact Ratio ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Dynamic Transmission Error ◽  
Selection Of

The influence of involute contact ratio on the torsional vibration behavior of a spur gear pair is investigated experimentally by measuring the dynamic transmission error of several gear pairs using a specially designed gear test rig. Measured forced response curves are presented, and harmonic amplitudes of dynamic transmission error are compared above and below gear mesh resonances for both unmodified and modified gears having various involute contact ratio values. The influence of involute contact ratio on dynamic transmission error is quantified and a set of generalized, experimentally validated design guidelines for the proper selection of involute contact ratio to achieve quite gear systems is presented. A simplified analytical model is also proposed which accurately describes the effects of involute contact ratio on dynamic transmission error.

Finite Element/Contact Mechanics Analysis of Spur Gear Pairs With Tooth Root Cracks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaosen Wang ◽  
Adrian A. Hood ◽  
Christopher G. Cooley
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Dynamic Response ◽  
Contact Mechanics ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Tooth Root ◽  
Transmission Errors ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dynamic Transmission Error ◽  
Root Crack

Abstract This study analyzes the nonlinear static and dynamic response in spur gear pairs with tooth root crack damage. A finite element/contact mechanics (FE/CM) model is used that accurately captures the elastic deformations on the gear teeth due to kinematic motion, tooth and rim deformations, vibration, and localized increases in compliance due to a tooth root crack. The damage is modeled by releasing the connectivity of the finite element mesh at select nodes near a tooth crack. The sensitivity of the calculated static transmission errors and tooth mesh stiffnesses is determined for varying crack initial locations, final locations, and the path from the initial to final location. Gear tooth mesh stiffness is calculated for a wide range of tooth root crack lengths, including large cracks that extend through nearly all of the tooth. Mesh stiffnesses are meaningfully reduced due to tooth root crack damage. The dynamic response is calculated for cracks of varying length. Larger cracks result in increased peak dynamic transmission errors. For small tooth root cracks the spectrum of dynamic transmission error contains components near the natural frequency of the gear pair. The spectrum of dynamic transmission error has broadband frequency response for large tooth root cracks that extend further than one-half of the tooth’s thickness.

scholarly journals Experimental study of the effect of assembly error on the lightly loaded transmission error of spur gear with crown modification

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1039-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiong Chun ◽  
Chen Siyu
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Optical Encoder ◽  
Input Shaft ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Impact Deformation ◽  
Dynamic Transmission Error ◽  
Gear Mesh Misalignment ◽  
Assembly Error ◽  
Gear Rattle

Experimental measurement of transmission error and vibration of a gear pair with crown modification are developed. With the help of high-precision optical encoder, effects of gear misalignment on unloaded and lightly loaded dynamic transmission error, which are relative to gear rattle, are investigated. The gear mesh misalignment is introduced by eccentric sleeve assembled on the output shaft. Effects of modification and misalignment on the dynamic transmission error, are studied at different load and driving velocity conditions. The experimental results show that, with the increase of the crown amplitude, the peak-to-peak values of dynamic transmission error are decreasing dramatically. Impact deformation or elastic deformation is a very important part of the dynamic transmission error although they are unloaded or lightly loaded. The components in harmonics of meshing frequency will change distinctly comparing cases at low input shaft velocity without and with misalignment, but different phenomena are detected while increasing the input shaft velocity. Finally, the relation between transmission error and gear box vibration is illustrated, and spectrum kurtosis is introduced to reveal gear rattle.

scholarly journals An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Random Spacing Errors on the Dynamic Transmission Error of Spur Gear Pairs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nevin Anandika ◽  
Ahmet Kahraman ◽  
David Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Spectrum ◽  
Gear Tooth ◽  
Random Sequence ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Engineering Industry ◽  
Gear Pair ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Dynamic Transmission Error ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Noise and vibration performance of a gear system is critical in any engineering industry. Excessive vibrational amplitudes originated by the excitations at the gear meshes propagate to the transmission housing to cause noticeable noise, while also increasing gear tooth stresses to degrade durability. As such, gear designers must generate designs that are nominally quiet with low-vibration amplitudes. This implies a gear pair fabricated exactly to the specifications of its blue print will be acceptable for its vibration behavior. Achieving this, however, is not sufficient. As the manufacturing of gears require them to be subject to bands of tolerances afforded by the manufacturing processes employed, the designers must be concerned about variations to the performance of their presumably quite baseline designs within these tolerance bands. This research aims at demonstrating how one type of manufacturing error, random tooth spacing errors, alter the vibratory behavior of a spur gear pair. Two pairs of spur gears are tested for their dynamic transmission error performance. One gear pair with no tooth spacing errors form the baseline. The second gear pair contain an intentionally induced random sequence of spacing errors. The forced vibration responses of both gear pairs are compared within wide ranges of speed and torque. This comparison shows that there is a clear and significant impact of random spacing errors on spur gear dynamics, measurable through examination of their respective transmission error signatures. In the off-resonance regions of speed, vibration amplitudes of the random error pair are higher than the no-error baseline spur gear pair. Meanwhile, at or near resonance peaks, the presence of random spacing errors tends to lower the peak amplitudes slightly as compared to the no-error baseline spur gear pair. The presence of random spacing errors introduces substantial harmonic content that are non-mesh harmonics. This results in a broadband frequency spectrum in addition to an otherwise well-defined frequency spectrum with gear-mesh order components, pointing to an additional concern of noise quality.

scholarly journals Dynamic Model of Spur Gear Pair with Modulation Internal Excitation

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong Wang ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Yuan-Qing Luo ◽  
Chang-Zheng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Gear Pair ◽  
Mesh Stiffness ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Internal Excitation ◽  
Modulation Sideband

In the actual measurements, vibration and noise spectrum of gear pair often exhibits sidebands around the gear mesh harmonic orders. In this study, a nonlinear time-varying dynamic model of spur gear pair was established to predict the modulation sidebands caused by the AM-FM modulation internal excitation. Here, backlash, modulation time-varying mesh stiffness, and modulation transmission error are considered. Then the undamped natural mode was studied. Numerical simulation was made to reveal the dynamic characteristic of a spur gear under modulation condition. The internal excitation was shown to exhibit obvious modulation sideband because of the modulation time-varying mesh stiffness and modulation transmission error. The Runge-Kutta method was used to solve the equations for analyzing the dynamic characteristics with the effect of modulation internal excitation. The result revealed that the response under modulation excitation exhibited obvious modulation sideband. The response under nonmodulation condition was also calculated for comparison. In addition, an experiment was done to verify the prediction of the modulation sidebands. The calculated result was consistent with the experimental result.

scholarly journals Bifurcation and Chaos Analysis of the Spur Gear Transmission System for One-Way Clutch, Two-Shaft Assembly

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Zhihui Liu ◽  
Hongzhi Yan ◽  
Yuming Cao ◽  
Yuqing Lai
Keyword(s):  
Excitation Frequency ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Transmission System ◽  
Gear Transmission ◽  
Torsional Stiffness ◽  
System Response ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Gear Transmission System ◽  
The Impact

A four-degree-of-freedom nonlinear transverse and torsional vibration model of spur gear transmission system for one-way clutch, two-shaft assembly was developed, in which the one-way clutch was modeled as a piecewise nonlinear spring with discontinuous stiffness, considering the factors such as the time-varying gear mesh stiffness, static transmission error, and nonlinearity backlash. With the help of bifurcation diagrams, time domain response diagrams, phase plane diagrams, and Poincaré maps, the effects of the excitation frequency and the torsional stiffness of one-way clutch on the dynamic behavior of gear transmission system for one-way clutch, two-shaft assembly are investigated in detail by using Runge-Kutta method. Numerical results reveal that the system response involves period-1 motion, multiperiodic motion, bifurcation, and chaotic motion. Large torsional stiffness of one-way clutch can increase the impact and lead to instability in the system. The results can present a useful source of reference for technicians and engineers for dynamic design and vibration control of such system.

A Comparative Study of Selected Gear Mesh Interface Dynamic Models

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Wesley Blankenship ◽  
Rajendra Singh
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Mesh Stiffness ◽  
Mathematical Basis ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Interface Dynamic ◽  
Gyroscopic Effects ◽  
Gear Drives

Abstract There is a consensus among modern gear researchers that variation in gear mesh stiffness and transmission error are the primary sources of vibratory excitation in most moderately to heavily loaded gear drives. However, several schools of thought exist in the literature on how to incorporate these mesh stiffness and transmission error concepts into a dynamic model. In this paper, a formal expression for an elastic gear mesh force vector is developed and selected gear mesh interface models, which exemplify most of the common modeling approaches in use today, are compared on a common mathematical basis. The various modeling strategies, their inherent philosophies and assumptions are made clear. All of the models examined employ a common spatial domain analysis methodology which pervades the field of modem gear dynamics. The focus of this study is limited to the quasi-steady state, non-resonant dynamic analysis of a single involute gear pair operating below critical shaft speeds such that shaft whirling and gyroscopic effects are negligible, and under loading conditions sufficiently high to prevent loss of tooth contact due to gear backlash phenomenon. The need for extended analytical models, which consider multi-dimensional excitation and better describe force transmissibility via the gear mesh interface, is identified. This forms the basis of an on-going comprehensive investigation which expects to clarify several unresolved issues in gear dynamic modeling; future publications will report such studies.

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