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Effect of teeth micro-geometrical form modification on contact kinematics and efficiency of high performance transmissions

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posted on 2017-05-11, 13:19 authored by Vishak Elisaus, Mahdi Mohammadpour, Stephanos TheodossiadesStephanos Theodossiades, Homer Rahnejat
Light weight, compactness and efficiency are key objectives in high performance vehicular transmission systems, which are subject to large variations in torque and power. Pitch line velocities of up to 52 m/s and teeth pair contact pressures of up to 3 GPa are routinely encountered under race conditions. Contact patch asymmetry due to angular misalignments between input and output shafts leads to the generation of high edge stress discontinuities on gear flanks, inducing fatigue spalling which affects system durability. Crowning is widely used as a palliative measure to mitigate these undesired effects. These problems can be further exacerbated by contact footprint truncation. The paper presents a new approach to modelling the kinematics and contact micro-geometry of meshing conjunctions of involute spur gears with profile and lead modifications. A time-efficient analytical method is presented to accurately determine the contact footprint and kinematics, leading to the solution of highly loaded non-Newtonian mixed thermo-elastohydrodynamic (TEHD) contact under the extreme prevalent conditions of high performance vehicular transmissions. The effect of tooth form modification on contact footprint truncation, contact kinematics and generated frictional power loss is investigated. This approach has not hitherto been reported in literature.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics

Volume

231

Issue

3

Pages

538-555

Citation

ELISAUS, V. ... et al, 2017. Effect of teeth micro-geometrical form modification on contact kinematics and efficiency of high performance transmissions. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, 231 (3), pp. 538-555.

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SAGE © IMechE

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-04-23

Publication date

2017-05-10

Copyright date

2017

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1464419317710157.

ISSN

1464-4193

eISSN

2041-3068

Language

  • en