Assessment of the Vibration Excitation and Optimization of Cylindrical Gears
Vibration and noise generation of gear stages is mainly caused by the excitation of the gear mesh. This excitation is significantly influenced by geometry of the tooth. Here, both the macro-geometry (main geometry) and the micro-geometry (flank corrections) of the teeth are important. Corrections of the tooth flanks usually have to meet the requirements of low excitation and high load capacity. Furthermore it is oftenly necessary, especially for transmissions with variable speed, to account for the dynamic effects (e.g. resonance behavior) of noise excitation. The computer program DZP (Dynamic Tooth Force Program) provides extensive calculation methods for analyzing mesh excitation and transmission dynamics. The frame program DZPopt provides extensive possibilities to determine an optimum excitation flank correction based on the calculation capabilities of DZP.