渐开线斜齿轮非稳态弹流润滑数值模拟研究

建立了渐开线斜齿轮啮合的弹流润滑计算模型,将斜齿圆柱齿轮啮合的齿面接触等效为有限长线接触的弹流润滑问题.考虑斜齿轮啮合的实际因素,将斜齿轮啮合过程中的等效曲率半径和齿面载荷的变化反映到弹流润滑计算模型中,应用统一Reynolds方程方法求得轮齿在1个完整啮合周期内的瞬时弹流润滑数值解.结果表明：斜齿轮啮合线上各点处的膜厚、压力均有较大不同,各接触点处的油膜厚度受综合曲率半径的影响较大;斜齿轮传动非稳态效应相对较弱;小齿轮齿根附近和节点位置处润滑状态较差;适当增大压力角可以改善齿轮的润滑.     

磨损与动力学耦合的行星传动齿轮动力学研究

行星齿轮磨损会导致齿轮齿侧间隙非线性增大、传动精度下降、齿面冲击力增大, 进而会导致齿轮传动系统振动加剧, 因此需要对行星齿轮的齿面磨损与动力学耦合特性进行研究. 本文构建了齿轮非线性磨损与考虑齿轮齿侧间隙的非线性动力学耦合计算模型, 对行星传动齿轮磨损动力学特性进行了研究. 首先建立齿轮啮合非线性动力学模型, 获得齿轮运行过程中的非线性啮合力; 进一步将非线性啮合力与齿轮齿面磨损模型相结合, 研究齿轮齿面磨损分布规律; 并根据齿轮磨损后的齿侧间隙对齿面重构, 同时对齿轮动力学模型进行更新; 进而得到行星齿轮传动中动态啮合力和磨损特性的变化趋势, 并获得齿轮传动系统齿轮齿向振动响应. 数值计算结果表明, 行星齿轮磨损导致齿轮在单?双齿交替啮合时产生的冲击增大, 同时太阳轮?行星轮啮合齿对对磨损较为敏感, 齿面啮合条件剧烈恶化, 是造成行星齿轮传动性能退化的主要原因, 本文研究结果为行星齿轮传动系统运行状态评估与可靠性预测提供了理论基础.      

Enhanced model of load distribution along the line of contact for non-standard involute external gears

The presence of undercut at the tooth root, non-equal addendum on pinion and wheel, non-standard tooth height or non-standard center distance may have decisive influence on the load distribution along the line of contact of spur and helical gear teeth. The curve of variation of the meshing stiffness along the path of contact, quite symmetric respect the midpoint of the interval of contact, loses its symmetry for non-standard geometries and operating conditions. As a consequence, the critical contact points for bending and wear calculations may be shifted from their locations for standard gears. In this paper, a non-uniform model of load distribution along the line of contact of standard spur and helical gears, obtained from the minimum elastic potential criterion, has been enhanced to fit with the meshing conditions of the above mentioned non-standard cylindrical gear pairs. The same analytical formulation of the initial model may be used for the non-standard gears by considering appropriate values of a virtual contact ratio, which are also presented in the paper.     

Prediction of Gear Dynamics Using Fast Fourier Transform of Static Transmission Error*

ABSTRACT

An analytical computer simulation procedure for dynamic modeling of low-contact-ratio spur gear systems is presented. The procedure computes the gear static transmission error and uses a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to generate its frequency spectrum at various tooth profile modifications. The dynamic loading response of an unmodified (perfect involut) gear pair is compared with that of gears with profile modifications. Correlations are found between several profile modifications and the resulting dynamic loads. An effective error, obtained from frequency domain anal     

Dynamic characteristic analysis of spur gear system considering tooth contact state caused by shaft misalignment

The effect of gear contact state change due to shaft misalignment on meshing stiffness is usually neglected in the traditional stiffness calculation model with misalignment error, the further influence mechanism of shaft misalignment on gear dynamic characteristics is also unclear. To address these shortcomings, a new mesh stiffness calculation model with misaligned gear considering the effects of tooth contact state is proposed by combining the improved loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) model. Then the effects of tooth contact state changes aroused by shaft misalignment on the meshing stiffness excitation are investigated. Moreover, a dynamic model of the misaligned gear system with 8 degrees of freedom (DOF) is established, and based on which the dynamic characteristics of the gear system are investigated and verified by experiment. The study results indicate that the proposed model can be used to evaluate the stiffness excitation and dynamic characteristics of the misaligned gear system with the tooth contact state taken into consideration. This study can provide a theoretical method for evaluating and identifying shaft misalignment errors.

     

Comparison of spur,helical and curvilinear gear drives by means of stress and tooth contact analyses

Involute tooth surfaces are a successful technical solution for both spur and helical gear drives since they provide linear contact and a low-level function of transmission errors under good conditions of meshing. Tip relief is usually required to improve contact conditions during the transfer of meshing between adjacent pairs of teeth. Yet, unfavorable conditions of contact appear when shaft deflections and misalignments are present. Localization of contact through lead crowning is a solution that increases the cost of machining in both spur and helical gear drives. In this sense, the generation process of curvilinear gear drives provides localization of contact with no additional cost. Comparison of stresses and transmission error functions in spur, helical and curvilinear gear drives is investigated to show if the application of curvilinear gear drives yields some advantages respect to spur and helical gear drives. The three mentioned types of cylindrical parallel-axis gear drives are provided, firstly, with linear contact, and, secondly, with localized contact, for the purpose of comparison. Different misalignments conditions are taken into account by means of several numerical examples.     

表面粗糙度特征对齿轮接触区润滑特性的影响

大部分工程实际粗糙表面符合非高斯分布,并对齿轮接触副润滑特性有重要影响.将渐开线齿轮啮合过程中齿面接触等效为三维无限长线接触,建立了一个可分析直齿轮和斜齿轮的混合弹流润滑计算模型;采用基于快速傅里叶变换的数值仿真方法生成给定参数的非高斯粗糙表面;运用该模型对直齿轮和斜齿轮啮合过程进行分析,求得不同表面粗糙度特征齿轮在各个啮合点的油膜厚度、接触区载荷以及接触区比例的情况.结果表明:对于标准差相等的非高斯粗糙表面,偏度值对齿轮润滑状况的影响与工况紧密相关,在润滑良好的条件下,偏度值越小润滑状况越优;润滑恶劣的条件下,偏度值越大润滑状况越优;而在各种工况下,峰度值对齿轮润滑状况的影响都表现出峰度值越大润滑状况越优的特点.     

Nonlinear dynamics of a spur gear pair with force-dependent mesh stiffness

Time-varying mesh stiffness is one of the main excitation sources of a gear system, and it is also considered as an important factor for the vibration and noise of gears. Thus, this excitation is usually taken as an input into the gear dynamic model to obtain the system dynamic responses. However, the mesh stiffness of a gear pair is actually nonlinear with respect to the dynamic mesh force (DMF) that fluctuates during the operation of gears. Therefore, the dynamic model of gears with the quasi-static mesh stiffness calculated under a constant load is not accurate sufficiently. In this paper, a dynamic model of spur gear is established with considering the effect of the force-dependent time-varying mesh stiffness, backlash and profile deviation. Due to the nonlinear relationship between the mesh stiffness and the load for each tooth pair, it needs first to determine the load sharing among tooth pairs and then calculate the overall mesh stiffness of the gear pair. As the mesh stiffness and DMF are related, the mesh stiffness is no longer directly taken into the gear dynamic model as an input, but is jointly solved with the numerical integration process using the gear dynamic model. Finally, the dynamic responses predicted from the established gear dynamic model are compared with the experimental results for validation and compared with the traditional models to reveal their differences. The results indicate that the established dynamic model of spur gear transmission has a wider application range than the traditional models.     

Simulation of impacts in geartrains using different approaches

Gear hammering in diesel engines is a well-known phenomenon in geared drives, exhibiting not only noise but also influencing the performance and durability of diesel engines. Gear hammering is characterised by flanks in contact that lift off and cause impacts when the contact reestablishes, which induces high, sharp dynamic loads. The knowledge of these contact forces is very important for the design of gears. Since contact forces in meshing gears are extremely difficult and expensive to measure, the simulation of these forces plays an important role. Nowadays, these contact simulations are usually carried out within overall models of entire engines using commercial multibody programs that provide submodels for gear contacts, usually based on rigid-body models. However, to reduce inertia effects, gears in geartrains are often designed with very thin bodies, whose elastic compliance influences the contact behaviour to a large extent. For a closer insight into the dynamic behaviour, and especially the influence of thin gear bodies during impact, a typical gear pairing is selected and impacts between one tooth pair are investigated for different boundary and initial conditions with three different models. Besides a multibody model, similar to those used in commercial multibody programs, a fully nonlinear finite-element model and a modally reduced model in combination with a local force law is used. The results of the different approaches are benchmarked in terms of accuracy and numerical effort.     

Using Hob Offset to Balance Dynamic Strength in Spur Gears*

An analytical study of the effect of hob offset on dynamic tooth strength of spur gears is presented. The study was limited to equal and opposite offset values applied to the pinion and gear to maintain the standard operating center distance. The analysis presented is performed using a new version of the NASA gear dynamics code DANST.

The operating speed of a transmission has a significant influence on the amount of hob offset required to equalize dynamic stresses in the pinion and gear. In the transmission studied, at low speeds, the optimum hob offset was found to fluctuate within a range. At higher speeds, the optimum value is constrained by the minimum allowed thickness at the tip of the pinion tooth. For gears that must operate over a range of speeds, an average offset value can be used. Spur gears designed with the procedure presented here can have significant improvements in load capacity.     

Computerized Developments in Design,Generation, Simulation of Meshing,and Stress Analysis of Gear Drives

The paper represents new computerized developments in design, generation, simulation of meshing, and stress analysis of gear drives. The main contents of the paper are: (i) application of a predesigned parabolic function of transmission errors for reduction of noise, (ii) computerized simulation of noise caused by transmission errors, (iii) modification of the basic algorithm of tooth contact analysis, and (iv) application of approaches developed for enhanced design and simulation of meshing of the following gear drives: (a) spiral bevel gear drives, (b) face-gear drives (including an approach for grinding), and (c) modified helical gear drives. The developed theory is illustrated with numerical examples.     

双联行星轮角度偏差对系统均载特性的影响

为了研究双联行星齿轮在实际设计参数下,其相对角度偏差对复合行星传动系统动力学特性的影响,采用集中参数法建立了3K-I型行星齿轮动力学模型,模型中将双联行星齿轮的相对角度偏差转化为啮合副齿侧间隙的变化,考虑了双联齿轮角度偏差、轮齿侧隙和时变啮合刚度等非线性因素,采用龙格库塔法求解了系统的时域响应并计算其均载系数。分析了不同工况、偏差下系统的动态特性。结果表明,存在双联行星轮角度偏差时,轻载下更容易发生齿轮的脱齿与冲击,系统的均载系数随着双联行星轮角度偏差差值及系统的负载降低而增大,各组行星轮角度偏差分布越集中,角度偏差对系统均载特性的影响越小;角度偏差分布同号时,对系统中某一对齿轮的承载影响明显;角度偏差分布异号时,对系统均载特性的影响最大。     

基于载荷分担理论的渐开线斜齿轮热混合弹流润滑分析

沿接触线把斜齿轮分成许多小薄片,每一薄片看成具有当量角速度的直齿轮,根据欧拉方程得到任一接触点处的曲率半径和表面速度.然后基于载荷分担、弹流润滑和粗糙线接触理论,建立了考虑表面粗糙度的斜齿轮传动混合热弹流润滑模型.研究了斜齿轮传动稳态载荷分布下牛顿流体和Carreau流体时的润滑特性.结果表明:牛顿流体和Carreau非牛顿流体模型下,中心油膜厚度、油膜承载比例、油膜温升随时间和接触线的变化规律相同.牛顿流体下的摩擦系数较工程实际偏大.Carreau非牛顿流体模型下摩擦系数和工程实际相符,其随接触线啮合位置的变化规律与油膜厚度正好相反.     

Computational approach to design face-milled spiral bevel gear drives with favorable conditions of meshing and contact

The micro-geometry of the tooth surfaces of spiral bevel and hypoid pinions has to be fine-adjusted to obtain enhanced meshing and contact characteristics during the meshing process with their corresponding mating gears. In this paper, a new methodology is proposed to design face-milled spiral bevel gear drives to, firstly, derive favorable orientation and dimensions of the contact pattern between the mating surfaces of the gears and, secondly, obtain a predesigned parabolic function of negative transmission errors with limited magnitude of maximum transmission errors. The proposed approach is based on the definition of the desired topography for the active surfaces of the pinion followed by a numerical derivation of their finishing machine-tool settings through a bound-constrained optimization algorithm. Increasing mechanical strength and reducing the levels of noise and vibration of face-milled spiral bevel gear drives constitute the main objectives of the proposed design process. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the applicability of the developed theory .     

Optimal design of gears contact interface modification for an objective as minimum impact resistance of initial meshing-in time domain

Meccanica - In gear pair actual alternating meshing process, the comprehensive errors of the transmission system and the thermal elastic deformation of the teeth body cause the gears in the meshing...     

斜齿轮疲劳裂纹萌生及扩展过程全寿命研究

文章以斜齿轮为研究对象,综合考虑混合润滑状态下摩擦动力学特性对齿面应力分布的影响以及渗碳表层硬度梯度和残余应力的非均匀分布特征,以风险疲劳累积理论为基础建立了疲劳裂纹萌生寿命预估模型;考虑裂纹在晶粒内部的非线性扩展规律以及晶界处的非连续扩展特征,建立了短裂纹扩展模型;针对长裂纹扩展过程中不同阶段扩展速率的差异,建立了长裂纹扩展速率统一方程,从而完成了对齿轮接触区疲劳裂纹萌生及扩展过程全寿命的预估.计算结果表明:齿面应力分布受动载荷和润滑状态的影响显著;在残余应力作用下,有效剪切应力在渗碳表层出现多个波峰,疲劳裂纹萌生位置多点化,导致裂纹尺度有所不同,疲劳寿命存在差异,失效形式多样化.     

计及短周期误差的直齿轮副近周期运动及其辨识

齿轮副中的齿距偏差等短周期误差使系统出现复杂的周期运动, 影响齿轮传动的平稳性. 将该类复杂周期运动定义为近周期运动, 采用多时间尺度Poincaré映射截面对其进行辨识. 为研究齿轮副的近周期运动, 引入含齿距偏差的直齿轮副非线性动力学模型, 并计入齿侧间隙与时变重合度等参数. 采用变步长4阶Runge-Kutta法数值求解动力学方程, 由所提出的辨识方法分析不同参数影响下系统的近周期运动. 根据改进胞映射法计算系统的吸引域, 结合多初值分岔图、吸引域图与分岔树状图等研究了系统随扭矩与啮合频率变化的多稳态近周期运动. 研究结果表明, 齿轮副中的短周期误差导致系统的周期运动变复杂, 在微观时间尺度内, 系统的Poincaré映射点数呈现为点簇形式, 系统的点簇数与实际运动周期数为宏观时间尺度的Poincaré映射点数. 短周期误差导致系统在微观时间尺度内的吸引子数量增多, 使系统运动转迁过程变复杂. 合理的参数范围及初值范围可提高齿轮传动的平稳性. 该辨识与分析方法可为非线性系统中的近周期运动研究奠定理论基础.      

Compensation of errors of alignment and contact pattern repositioning in hypoid gears with low crossing shaft angle

The investigation of the influence of different errors of alignment on the mesh behavior of hypoid gears with low crossing shaft angle has been carried out. As a result, a simplified methodology of compensation of errors of alignment and correction of the contact pattern by controlled axial displacements to the pinion and wheel of the hypoid gear set has been proposed. The shaft angle error and the offset error mainly influence the position of the contact pattern in profile direction. The pinion and wheel axial position errors influence the position of contact pattern along the tooth trace direction and change the position slightly along the tooth profile direction. All the assembly errors increase the peak-to-peak value of transmission errors, except positive values of the pinion axial position error that allows decreasing the peak-to-peak transmission error slightly in an appropriate range. Finite element analysis has been performed to verify the compensating ability of the developed methodology.

     

Non-Newtonian mixed elastohydrodynamics of differential hypoid gears at high loads

Prediction of friction and transmission efficiency are design objectives in transmission engineering. Unlike spur and helical involute gears, there is a dearth of numerical analysis in the case of hypoid gear pairs. In particular, it is important to take into account the side leakage of the lubricant from the contact as the result of the lubricant entrainment at an angle to the elliptical contact footprint. In the automobile differential hypoid gears, high loads result in non-Newtonian behaviour of the lubricant, which may exceed its limiting shear stress, a fact which has not been taken into account in the open literature. This results in conditions which deviate from observed experimental tractive behaviour. The paper takes into account these salient practical features of hypoid gear pair analysis under high load. It highlights a non-Newtonian shear model, which limits the lubricant shear behaviour. Prediction of friction and transmission efficiency is in line with those reported in the literature.     

Dynamics of a Gear System with Faults in Meshing Stiffness

Gear box dynamics is characterised by a periodically changing stiffness. In real gear systems, a backlash also exists that can lead to a loss in contact between the teeth. Due to this loss of contact the gear has piecewise linear stiffness characteristics, and the gears can vibrate regularly and chaotically. In this paper we examine the effect of tooth shape imperfections and defects. Using standard methods for nonlinear systems we examine the dynamics of gear systems with various faults in meshing stiffness.