Gear Engineers have long recognized the importance ofconsidering system factors when analyzing a single pair of gears inmesh. These factors include: load sharing in multi-mesh geartrains, bearing clearances, and effects of flexible components suchas housings, gear blanks, shafts, and carriers for planetary gears.Quality requirements and expectations in terms of durability, loweroperating noise and vibration, and efficiency have increased. Withincreased complexity and quality requirements, a gear engineer mustuse advanced system design tools to ensure a robust gear train isdelivered on time, meeting all quality, cost, and weightrequirements. As a standard practice, finite element models havetraditionally been used for analyzing transmission systemdeflections, but this modeling environment does not always includeprovisions for analysis of vibration, efficiency, or anyconsiderations for attribute variation. And that often requiresmany runs of the test to ensure all variations have been includedand tested. An advanced software tool is available for the analysisof transmission system durability, noise, vibration, andefficiency, all within a single programming environment, includingthe effects of flexible components such as housings, gear blanks,and shafting, while also allowing manufacturing variation studiesto be performed. This paper includes the results of a case study ofthis program.
- Edition:
- 09
- Published:
- 09/01/2009
- Number of Pages:
- 13
- File Size:
- 1 file , 510 KB
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