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.

     

斜齿轮弹流润滑下的接触疲劳寿命计算

经典齿轮接触疲劳强度理论是基于光滑表面赫兹干接触理论,而实际齿面具有粗糙度,且啮合轮齿多数处于混合润滑状态.本文基于齿轮润滑接触分析建立了渐开线斜齿轮的接触疲劳寿命计算模型.模型由齿轮润滑接触分析模型和基于次表面应力分布的疲劳寿命模型组成.首先将斜齿圆柱齿轮一对齿的瞬时啮合等效为两反向圆锥的接触问题,建立了齿轮的有限长弹流润滑计算模型,考虑了齿轮啮合周期内瞬时载荷、接触线长、卷吸速度等因素的影响,基于统一雷诺方程方法求得啮合齿对间的润滑压力和油膜厚度分布;在此基础上,计算轮齿接触区次表面的米歇斯应力分布,根据Zaretsky接触疲劳寿命计算模型,对齿轮组的接触疲劳寿命进行模拟预测.针对不同工况参数下接触疲劳寿命计算表明:润滑油黏度、轮齿表面粗糙度等因素对齿面接触疲劳寿命均有显著的影响.     

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 .     

Fast evaluation of friction forces in traction-drive contacts including thermal effects

Summary  In automotive traction drives, power is transmitted by friction forces. The friction forces result from the shear stresses developed in lubricated and highly loaded contacts between rolling bodies. Due to the kinematics of a traction drive, shear velocities occur in both the rolling direction and perpendicular to it. Due to these shear velocities and by normal pressure, the lubricant is forced to build up shear stresses. The increase of the shear stresses may be modelled by a nonlinear viscous element. The describing differential equations are coupled by the equivalent shear stress, which defines the nonlinear behaviour of the element. A fast method is described to evaluate the coupled differential equations. By using a known analytical approximation for the equivalent shear stress, the differential equations are decoupled and can be solved analytically. In an iterative procedure the equivalent shear stress is updated, and the complete solution is found. The iterative method is extended to account for thermal effects in the contact. Received 17 June 1999; accepted for publication 26 October 1999     

评价半流体润滑剂性能的齿轮台架

作者对全尺寸功率流封闭式齿轮试验台架成功地进行了改进和完善,发展了一种测试方法齐全、测量精度高的齿轮试验台架与测试系统,并以其进行了00~#半流体润滑脂、50~#机械油等润滑时啮合齿面间的油膜电压、齿轮传动效率、减速器的振动和噪声、润滑剂的温升和抗磨性能等多方面的对比分析和评价。结果表明,这种全尺寸齿轮试验台架与测试系统对半流体润滑剂性能的评价分析是可靠的,适合作为各种半流体润滑剂性能的全尺寸试验台架推广应用。     

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.     

Passive control of vibration of thin-walled gears: advanced modelling of ring dampers

Vibrations on gears are mainly induced by the gear mesh contact. Resonance conditions of the gear may occur during service if the mesh frequency is close to the natural frequencies of the system at the designed speed of the shaft. Since detuning is not always possible in gears, the response level must be reduced by increasing the damping of the system. In this paper, a passive approach based on the application of a ring damper to reduce the vibration level is presented. The ring damper is placed in a groove underneath the outer rim of the gear. The contact is guaranteed by the preload due to the elasticity of the ring damper itself and above all by the centrifugal force that presses the damper against the groove during rotation. The relative motion of the two components at the contact interface dissipates energy by friction, and hence damping is generated. The vibration amplitude is reduced by optimizing the material and geometrical properties of the ring damper. One of the most important parameters in the determination of the amount of damping due to friction phenomena is the static normal load at the contact, which depends on the mass, the shape, and the material of the ring damper. A numerical method is presented, which couples the static and dynamic equilibrium equations of the assembly. The core of the proposed method is the contact element that takes into account local stick–slip–lift off of the contact and determines the contact forces in terms of static and dynamic loads, which are then used to solve the coupled static and dynamic equilibrium. Since the ring damper has a cut that breaks its continuous circular shape in order to be fitted on the groove, the hypothesis of cyclic symmetry for the gear/ring–damper assembly fails. As a consequence, an appropriate reduced-order modeling is presented to allow the forced response calculations. The algorithm is applied to a dummy bevel gear and to a ring damper having a flat punch contact area. The forced response calculations are performed to highlight the nonlinear interaction between the gear and damper by varying the parameters that mainly affect the amount and distribution of the contact forces and therefore the response level.     

啮入冲击对直齿轮弹流润滑的影响

考虑齿轮啮入冲击载荷,曲率半径、卷吸速度沿啮合线随时间的变化以及温度场的影响,用非牛顿流体的Ree-Erying润滑模型,利用多重网格法模拟了轮齿从啮入到啮出整个时间历程中油膜压力、膜厚和温度分布的变化,对比分析了啮入冲击载荷与平稳载荷对渐开线直齿轮时变非牛顿热弹流润滑结果的影响.数值结果表明,啮入冲击载荷只对啮入初始阶段的油膜压力、膜厚、温度有很大影响,最小膜厚和最大压力都发生在冲击载荷的最大峰值载荷时刻,所以齿轮的啮入冲击对齿轮保持良好的润滑状态是不利的.     

Formation of heterogeneous spatial structures in a boundary lubrication layer during friction

This paper presents a synergetic model describing the boundary friction of two atomically smooth solid surfaces separated by an ultrathin lubricant layer. The model is constructed using the Lorenz system of equations, which is parameterized by shear stresses, shear strains, and the lubricant temperature. Given the spatial inhomogeneity of these parameters, it is shown that a structure with two types of domains is formed during friction on the contact plane. Time dependences of the fractal dimensions of the domain distributions over the contact plane are calculated, and it is shown that there exists a time when the fractal dimensions take minimum values. During the evolution, the system tends to a homogeneous state in which the shear stresses over entire contact area have a constant value which determines the relative velocity of motion of the friction blocks.     

考虑摩擦动力学特性的渐开线齿轮润滑分析

以渐开线齿轮为研究对象,综合考虑齿面摩擦、油膜刚度和阻尼的影响,将摩擦动力学特性和齿面形貌考虑到有限长线接触弹流润滑理论(EHL)中,采用多重网格数值求解法获得了渐开线齿轮在不同啮合位置处的动载荷分布,压力与膜厚分布,并对比分析了干摩擦与润滑条件下压力分布的不同特征以及动载荷对油膜分布的影响.计算结果表明:低速时,动载荷接近稳态分布,在单双齿交替点有明显的高频冲击,随着转速的增加,动载荷变化趋于平缓;与干摩擦相比,润滑油膜可以减小最大压力峰值以及入口区和出口区的压力,但对粗糙峰凹谷处压力有所增加.沿啮合线方向,压力在节点位置附近达到最大值,膜厚受动载荷的影响较小,近似呈线性增加趋势.     

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.     

点接触润滑粗糙表面滑动摩擦力的预测研究

在整个润滑区域内基于统一Reynolds方程的混合润滑模型,根据流变模型计算流体摩擦力,根据边界膜极限剪应力模型计算微突体接触摩擦力,二者相加得到混合润滑摩擦力.分析了粗糙度幅值和纹理对摩擦系数的影响以及非牛顿流变模型对流体摩擦系数的影响.模拟跨越整个润滑区,即弹流润滑、混合润滑和边界润滑,得到完整的Stribeck曲线.结果表明,表面越粗糙,混合润滑的摩擦系数越大,弹流润滑和边界润滑时粗糙度幅值影响很小.交叉斜纹的润滑效果优于横向纹理.不同极限剪应力流变模型计算的摩擦系数相差不大.     

齿轮接触有限元分析

通过接触仿真分析研究了通用接触单元在轮齿变形和接触应力计算中的应用。建立了一对齿轮接触仿真分析的模型，并使用新的接触单元法计算了轮齿变形和接触应力，与赫兹理论比较，同时也计算了摩擦力对接触应力的影响。计算分析了单元离散、几何、边界范围与加载或约束处理方式的误差，建立了一个计算轮齿变形和接触应力的标准，说明了新的接触单元法的精确法、有效性和可靠性。     

对基于恢复时间的剪稀流变模型的进一步探讨及其对squalane油品流变特性的模拟

本文作者前期基于球-杆变形后恢复到原状态的时间,建立了新的形式较简单的流变模型,并模拟了黏度较高的聚合油PAO 650的摩擦系数曲线.本文中将该模型的应用范围进行了推广,模拟了黏度较低的squalane油品的流变特性.把该流变公式应用到点接触热流变弹流润滑的数学模型中,通过与试验测得的摩擦系数的比较确定了使用该模型时squalane油品的待定参数值,进而得到了点接触热流变弹流润滑的完全数值解.结果表明:解得的压力、膜厚和温度的变化规律均符合预期,且摩擦系数曲线与试验结果整体吻合性较好.新流变模型对高、低黏度的油品均能得到合理的流变特性曲线,说明作者的基于恢复时间的流变模型具有一定的正确性和可应用性.另外,由新模型计算得到的squalane油品的剪应力曲线呈现出一近似水平段,这也在一定程度上解释了流变试验文献中多次提到的极限剪应力现象.     

基于承载接触特性的直齿面齿轮滑动摩擦啮合效率研究

为了解决直齿面齿轮滑动摩擦啮合效率的问题,基于弹性流体动力润滑理论,提出了一种计算直齿面齿轮啮合效率的方法.首先,运用轮齿接触分析(TCA)和轮齿承载接触分析技术(LTCA)对直齿面齿轮承载啮合过程进行数值仿真;其次,运用非牛顿准稳态热弹流理论建立滑动摩擦系数的计算模型,从而建立直齿面齿轮啮合效率的计算模型,最后分析了输入扭矩、转速等对啮合效率的影响.结果表明:滑动摩擦系数是影响齿轮啮合效率的重要因素;齿面不同位置滑动摩擦系数也不相同;滑动摩擦系数受输入转速、输入扭矩的影响.该方法为直齿面齿轮的进一步优化计算提供一定的理论依据.     

Modeling and analyzing of torsional dynamics for helical gear pair considered double and three teeth drive-side meshing

Helical gears are generally considered to be more stable than spur gears. But rattling of the helical gear transmission is found in the engineering practice. The torsional dynamics equations of helical gear pair in high-speed railway gearbox are established in order to reveal the rattling mechanism of helical gear transmission. Double and three teeth pair drive-side meshing are considered. The multi-state meshing zone, load distribution rate and time-varying stiffness determined by contact ratio are analyzed and calculated. The dynamic characteristic transition process of the system is analyzed according to the bifurcation diagrams and the corresponding top Lyapunov exponent (TLE) diagrams, phase portraits, Poincaré maps and time history spectrums of dynamic meshing force based on the calculation of these parameters. The tooth disengagement, tooth back-side contact and their parameter range are found. This study can provide theoretical basis for rattling suppression and transmission stability improvement of helical gear pair.

     

磨合过程中液体润滑实现超低摩擦的混合模型研究

针对球-盘滑动试验,在磨合过程中获得超低摩擦的液体润滑状态,建立耦合流体润滑、粗糙接触力学、Archard磨损方程和相关物理参数(液体黏度、表面粗糙度和磨损系数)时变函数的混合模型,研究磨合过程中液体润滑的摩擦系数演化.通过数值模拟结果可知：在磨合过程中,润滑介质等效黏度增大,形成流体动压润滑薄膜,有效隔开粗糙表面;其次在磨合过程中,新生成的表面粗糙度降低,减少粗糙峰承载比,实现超低摩擦润滑状态;最后在适当的液体黏度和提高表界面效应减少边界摩擦系数,可进一步实现液体超低摩擦润滑状态.为磨合过程宏观液体润滑性能演化所建立的混合数值模型对提高液体润滑超低摩擦设计效率具有重要价值意义.     

Nonlinear vibration and dynamics of ceramic on ceramic artificial hip joints: a spatial multibody modelling

The present study investigates nonlinear vibration and dynamic behaviour of a ceramic-on-ceramic hip implant. The aim of this research is to firstly gain a better understanding of hip squeaking and vibration and secondly to investigate the effect of friction on contact point path during normal gait. For this purpose, a spatial multibody dynamic hip model was developed, using a friction-velocity constitutive law combined with a Hertzian contact model. Furthermore, the physiological three-dimensional rotation angles and forces are taken into account to calculate tangential and normal contact forces, respectively. Comparing the outcomes with that available in the literature allowed for the validation of our approach. It was shown that the cause of hip squeaking is friction-induced vibration owing to different phenomena such as stick–slip friction, negative-sloping friction and contact force changes. Moreover, friction-induced vibration does significantly change contact point path during the gait when compared to non-friction analysis.     

Transverse Elastic–Friction Vibrations of a Running Aircraft

An analytical model of the plane-parallel running of an aircraft under crosswind load is proposed. The compliance of the internal constraints of the aircraft and the nonlinearity of the side force on the landing gear wheels are taken into account. The model is intended to study the transverse elastic friction vibrations of the aircraft hull and landing gears. The steady motion of the aircraft is considered. The dependence of the lateral friction force on the slip angle is assumed to have the form of a sinusoidal segment. The Routh–Hurwitz instability conditions are derived in an explicit form     

Stochastic Vibration Model of Gear Transmission Systems Considering Speed-Dependent Random Errors

A dynamic and stochastic simulation model is developed for analyzing the vibration of gear transmission systems with consideration of the influence of the time-variant stiffness, loads, and gear transmission errors. The gear transmission system is viewed as a non-linear, time-correlated and stationary stochastic system. The transmission errors of gears are decomposed into harmonic and random components based on the spectral analysis. To simulate the random component, a second order Markov process with time-variant parameters considering influence of rotational speed is proposed and the method to determine the model parameters based on the random error of measured gear transmission error is developed. A simulation system is developed. The input to the simulation system is a white Gaussian noise process and harmonic errors, and the output is the rotational vibration acceleration of gears. Experiments are carried out to verify the proposed model. The influences of the random error on vibration acceleration are examined using the developed simulation system.