This thesis investigates the characteristics of an involute gear system including contact stresses, bending stresses, and the transmission errors of gears in mesh. Gearing is one of the most critical components in mechanical power transmission systems. Transmission error is considered to be one of the main contributors to noise and vibration in a gear set. Transmission error measurement has become popular as an area of research on gears and is possible method for quality control. To estimate transmission error in a gear system, the characteristics of involute spur gears were analyzed by using the finite element method. The contact stresses were examined using 2-D FEM models. The bending stresses in the tooth root were examined using a 3-D FEM model. Current methods of calculating gear contact stresses use Hertzs equations, which were originally derived for contact between two cylinders. To enable the investigation of contact problems with FEM, the stiffness relationship between the two contact areas is usually established through a spring placed between the two contacting areas. This can be achieved by inserting a contact element placed in between the two areas where contact occurs. The results of the two dimensional FEM analyses from ANSYS are presented. These stresses were compared with the theoretical values. Both results agree very well. This indicates that the FEM model is accurate. This thesis also considers the variations of the whole gear body stiffness arising from the gear body rotation due to bending deflection, shearing displacement and contact deformation. Many different positions within the meshing cycle were investigated.

This thesis investigates the characteristics of an involute gear system including contact stresses, bending stresses, and the transmission errors of gears in mesh. Gearing is one of the most critical components in mechanical power transmission systems. Transmission error is considered to be one of the main contributors to noise and vibration in a gear set. Transmission error measurement has become popular as an area of research on gears and is possible method for quality control. To estimate transmission error in a gear system, the characteristics of involute spur gears were analyzed by using the finite element method. The contact stresses were examined using 2-D FEM models. The bending stresses in the tooth root were examined using a 3-D FEM model. Current methods of calculating gear contact stresses use Hertzs equations, which were originally derived for contact between two cylinders. To enable the investigation of contact problems with FEM, the stiffness relationship between the two contact areas is usually established through a spring placed between the two contacting areas. This can be achieved by inserting a contact element placed in between the two areas where contact occurs. The results of the two dimensional FEM analyses from ANSYS are presented. These stresses were compared with the theoretical values. Both results agree very well. This indicates that the FEM model is accurate. This thesis also considers the variations of the whole gear body stiffness arising from the gear body rotation due to bending deflection, shearing displacement and contact deformation. Many different positions within the meshing cycle were investigated.

This thesis is an investigation of possible applications for a low cost non-contact magnetic rotational position sensor. A single stage gearbox operating spur gears was instrumented with these sensors along with typical optical encoders. These rotational position devices were used independently to measure gearbox Transmission Error (TE) during operation. Basic filtering techniques were used to condition the TE so that localized faults were observable. Characteristic feature extraction on the TE using RMS, Kurtosis and Crest Factor was used to quantify gearbox dynamics. These features were able to measure dynamic changes in gearbox health, such as wearing in the gears or the progression of a fault resulting in full tooth failure. These sensor attributes are ideal for machine condition monitoring applications where catastrophic failure can be forewarned by incipient fault detection. / Thesis (Master, Mechanical and Materials Engineering) -- Queen's University, 2010-10-12 17:21:13.125

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Double-Enveloping Reducers are used widely in various industries. In this study, a procedure is developed to analyze the geometric and kinematic properties of such a rotational reducer. In the mechanism, the globoidal worm profile is derived by using the sweeping method and the profile of the globoidal worm wheel is obtained by employing the screw theory. Based on Standards of the American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA 6030-C87), the involved parameters in designing and analyzing the reducer are revealed. Finally, the transmission errors based on tooth the contact analysis (TCA) are also reported.

ABSTRACT Presently, many industrial applications of gear sets with skew axes, especially worm gear and hypoid gear, are most widely used. The main content of this thesis is to construct the contact analysis model of the line-contacted type tooth profile of gear sets with skew axes with assembly error. The influence of geometrical parameters of skew-axes gear to the transmission error is analyzed. The complex method for optimization is implemented to select the better skew-axes gear parameters with the best performance in transmission error with assembly error. To prove the presented analysis model, the optimized gear parameters are utilized to construct the solid model for analyzing the contact properties by using computer simulation program.

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