Time-varying stiffness model of spur gear considering the effect of surface morphology characteristics

Abstract

The nonuniform cantilever beam and Hertzian contact model have been widely used to derive the mesh stiffness of spur gear assuming that the contact surface is absolutely frictionless. However, studies have confirmed that machined surfaces are rough in microscale and can be simulated by the Weierstrass–Mandelbort function. In order to get a reasonable and precise mesh stiffness model, the M-B contact model and finite element method are combined to express the local contact stiffness K_h. Through the simulation and comparison, the analytical finite element method is proved to be consistent with the traditional models and introduces the roughness parameters of machined tooth surface into the meshing process. Furthermore, the results also show that it is advantageous to improve the total mesh stiffness by increasing the fractal dimension D and input torque T as well as decreasing the roughness parameter G. In this paper, a relationship is built between the total mesh stiffness of gear sets with tooth surface characters and input torque, which can be a guidance in the design of the tooth surface parameters and the choice of the processing method in the future.

Keywords

Spur gear time-varying mesh stiffness fractal contact model surface characteristics finite element method

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