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Title: Multi-Point Control for Face-Milled Spiral Bevel Gears with a Predesigned Fourth-Order Motion Curve
This paper presents an ultimate motion methodology of a face-milling spiral bevel gear pair to synthesize the mating tooth surfaces with a predesigned fourth-order motion curve. The methodology is to control some contact points along the contact path in the process of tooth contact analysis via application of an extended local synthesis which permits some transmission errors rather than zero at the concerned contact point. The modified offset motion correction is selected to demonstrate the proposed methodology. Applied torque corresponding to an elastic approach of 0.00635 mm at the mean contact point is calculated and the loaded tooth contact analysis is performed. Numerical results show that the extended local synthesis can effectively control the transmission errors on the predesigned fourth-order motion curve at arbitrarily predesigned contact points along the contact path of the spiral bevel gear pair. The tooth contact pattern for the actual tooth pair is scattered into three segments since the rotational motion of the driven gear at any instant angular position is dependent on the tooth pair with the least transmission error among the three adjacent tooth pairs. The actual tooth contact patterns of the spiral bevel gear pair become continuous when meshing tooth surfaces are elastically deformed.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2329791
PAR ID:
10511921
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
MDPI
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Machines
Volume:
12
Issue:
1
ISSN:
2075-1702
Page Range / eLocation ID:
34
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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