ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE LOADED MESHING OF A FACE GEAR

摘要

This work deals with loaded face gear meshing. In the first part, the software developed is described briefly. This tool can simulate the loaded behavior of face gear meshing and provide results such as the instantaneous pressure distribution along the entire face width of the teeth in contact and loaded transmission error. In the second part of the paper, a comparison between the point or line contact is performed for loaded meshing. Further computations calculate assembling-error sensitivity for the two contact cases. To improve the case of line contact, a method for pinion crowning optimization is presented in the last part. The aim is to obtain the best loaded face gear meshing in order to avoid the sensitivity of the line contact case due to misalignment.