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This thesis focuses on the development of a health monitoring system for gearbox transmissions. This was accomplished by developing and understanding a two-stage gearbox computer model that emulates an actual gearbox test rig. The computer model contains actual gearbox geometry, flexible shafts, bearings, gear contact forces, input motor torque, output brake torque, and realistic gearbox imbalance. The gear contact force of each gear stage and the input bearing translational acceleration were the main outputs compared between a healthy gearbox and damaged gearbox computer model. The damage of focus was a fatigue crack on the input pinion gear. A sideband energy ratio comparison yielded the computer simulation accurately modeled the difference between a healthy and damaged gearbox. The next step in this study involved the development of a repeatable procedure to initiate and propagate a fatigue crack at the tooth root in an actual spur gear. A damaged spur gear allows for a future comparison of an actual healthy and damaged gearbox system in the lab. A custom fatigue fixture was designed and manufactured for a Martin S1224BS 1 spur gear. The fatigue crack was initiated by position control fatigue testing which deflects the gear tooth a set amplitude for a number of cycles. Over the length of the test, the load that the tooth can withstand in bending decreases as damage begins to occur. Once the max load on the gear has dropped by a significant percentage (5-15%) a crack has initiated and begun to propagate across the tooth face. The use of a scanning electron microscope confirmed the presence a fatigue crack.

There is a strong need in forging industry to reduce waste of material, improve quality, and reduce cost of forgings. About 30% of the material is wasted during conventional closed-die forging. Therefore, in order to reduce the cost of forged products and to obtain near-net or net shape parts, new forging methods should be applied. Precision forging concept is a cost-effective way to produce net-shape or near-net shape components. In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the production of gears by the net-shape forging technique. This has specific advantages over the traditional manufacturing processes of cutting gears such as hobbing, turning, and grinding including savings on cost and raw material, increased productivity, and gears with higher dynamic properties than conventionally cut ones. In this study, precision forging of a particular spur gear has been investigated. The precision forging die set has been conceptually designed and modeled in a computer aided design environment. The forging process of particular spur gear has been simulated by using a commercially available finite volume program. After the successful simulation results, the prototype die set and the tube-shaped billets were manufactured. The real-life experiments have been realized by using 1000 tons mechanical forging press available in METUBILTIR Research and Application Center Forging Laboratory. The results have been compared with the computer simulations. After the real-life experiments, it has been observed that the conceptual die design is appropriate and near-net shape spur gears are successfully obtained by the proposed precision forging die set.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-11-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:55:36Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 lago_df_me_ilha.pdf: 2600686 bytes, checksum: 82a754d34e90e3dd82ddaab84ab68958 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Todo sistema ou equipamento mecânico está sujeito a processos de deterioração. Esta deterioração leva ao aparecimento de defeitos que podem atrapalhar a continuidade e qualidade do serviço (produção). Uma quebra não prevista traduz-se por uma parada brusca, levando geralmente a grandes prejuízos e a perda de tempo de produção. Para evitar paradas inesperadas eficientemente e reduzir os custo de manutenção são utilizadas técnicas de manutenção preditiva. Entre todas as técnicas existentes, as mais importantes na manutenção de redutores são a análise de vibrações e a análise de partículas de desgaste. A determinação da severidade, modos e tipos de desgaste em máquinas pode ser feita pela identificação da morfologia, acabamento superficial, coloração, natureza, quantidade e tamanho das partículas encontradas em amostras de óleo ou graxas. Pela análise do sinal vibratório é possível tomar decisões de intervir ou não na operação da máquina, aumentando a disponibilidade e confiabilidade da mesma. A integração destas técnicas tem o potencial para revolucionar práticas industriais e proporcionar para as companhias um significante alívio econômico. Para estudo destas duas técnicas, neste trabalho foi construída uma bancada experimental com o propósito de se realizar a manutenção preditiva em um redutor de velocidades. O Sistema foi posto para funcionar até o limite de utilização. Foram utilizados lubrificantes recomendados pelo fabricante do redutor, lubrificantes com contaminação líquida em várias porcentagens e lubrificantes com contaminação sólida em duas porcentagens. Foram observadas que para baixas rotações a análise de partículas foi vantajosa em relação à análise de vibrações e que a contaminação por água, embora tenha ocasionado uma maior oxidação do sistema, proporcionou menor desgaste do que o lubrificante sem contaminação. / Every system or mechanical equipment is subject to deterioration processes. This deterioration takes to the apparition of defects that can disturb the continuity and quality of the service (production). One break not foreseen translates for an abrupt stop, usually taking to great damages and waste of time of production. For avoid unexpected stops efficiently and reduce the cost, predictive maintenance techniques are used. Among all the existent techniques, the most important in the maintenance of reducers are vibration analysis and wear particle analysis. The determination of the severity, wear modes and types in machines can be done through the identification of the morphology, surface finishing, coloration, nature, quantity and size of the particles found in oil samples or lubricating greases. Vibration Analysis is one of the oldest techniques in the maintenance. By vibration sign analysis it is possible to make decisions of intervening or not in the machine operation, improving its availability and reliability. The integration of these techniques has the potential to revolutionize industry practices and provide a significant industrial economic relief. For the study of these two techniques, in this work, an experimental bench was built with the purpose of doing the predictive maintenance in a reducer. The System was put to work until the limit. It was observed that for low rotations the wear particle analysis were advantageous in relation to the vibration analysis and for oil with water contamination, although causing a larger oxidation in the system, a smaller wear than the lubricant without contamination was provided.

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Orientador: Aparecido Carlos Gonçalves / Banca: Gilberto Pechoto de Melo / Banca: Jorge Nei Brito / Resumo: Todo sistema ou equipamento mecânico está sujeito a processos de deterioração. Esta deterioração leva ao aparecimento de defeitos que podem atrapalhar a continuidade e qualidade do serviço (produção). Uma quebra não prevista traduz-se por uma parada brusca, levando geralmente a grandes prejuízos e a perda de tempo de produção. Para evitar paradas inesperadas eficientemente e reduzir os custo de manutenção são utilizadas técnicas de manutenção preditiva. Entre todas as técnicas existentes, as mais importantes na manutenção de redutores são a análise de vibrações e a análise de partículas de desgaste. A determinação da severidade, modos e tipos de desgaste em máquinas pode ser feita pela identificação da morfologia, acabamento superficial, coloração, natureza, quantidade e tamanho das partículas encontradas em amostras de óleo ou graxas. Pela análise do sinal vibratório é possível tomar decisões de intervir ou não na operação da máquina, aumentando a disponibilidade e confiabilidade da mesma. A integração destas técnicas tem o potencial para revolucionar práticas industriais e proporcionar para as companhias um significante alívio econômico. Para estudo destas duas técnicas, neste trabalho foi construída uma bancada experimental com o propósito de se realizar a manutenção preditiva em um redutor de velocidades. O Sistema foi posto para funcionar até o limite de utilização. Foram utilizados lubrificantes recomendados pelo fabricante do redutor, lubrificantes com contaminação líquida em várias porcentagens e lubrificantes com contaminação sólida em duas porcentagens. Foram observadas que para baixas rotações a análise de partículas foi vantajosa em relação à análise de vibrações e que a contaminação por água, embora tenha ocasionado uma maior oxidação do sistema, proporcionou menor desgaste do que o lubrificante sem contaminação. / Abstract: Every system or mechanical equipment is subject to deterioration processes. This deterioration takes to the apparition of defects that can disturb the continuity and quality of the service (production). One break not foreseen translates for an abrupt stop, usually taking to great damages and waste of time of production. For avoid unexpected stops efficiently and reduce the cost, predictive maintenance techniques are used. Among all the existent techniques, the most important in the maintenance of reducers are vibration analysis and wear particle analysis. The determination of the severity, wear modes and types in machines can be done through the identification of the morphology, surface finishing, coloration, nature, quantity and size of the particles found in oil samples or lubricating greases. Vibration Analysis is one of the oldest techniques in the maintenance. By vibration sign analysis it is possible to make decisions of intervening or not in the machine operation, improving its availability and reliability. The integration of these techniques has the potential to revolutionize industry practices and provide a significant industrial economic relief. For the study of these two techniques, in this work, an experimental bench was built with the purpose of doing the predictive maintenance in a reducer. The System was put to work until the limit. It was observed that for low rotations the wear particle analysis were advantageous in relation to the vibration analysis and for oil with water contamination, although causing a larger oxidation in the system, a smaller wear than the lubricant without contamination was provided. / Mestre

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