Journal
MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages 102-119Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2018.05.036
Keywords
Transmission error; Gear damage; Gear failure; Prognosis; Frequency spectrum
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Failing gear teeth, either by working-surface-damage (pitting, spalling, scuffing, etc.) or by bending fatigue, causes tooth-to-tooth variations in the loaded tooth working surfaces. Such variations cause changes (generally increases) in the non-tooth-meshing rotational-harmonic amplitudes of the transmission-error contribution from the affected gear. Simple models of missing working-surface material caused by damage are used to show where transmission-error rotational-harmonic spectrum changes will take place. Bending fatigue damage is shown to initially cause maximum changes in rotational-harmonic amplitudes well below the tooth-meshing fundamental harmonic, whereas small pits are shown to cause changes in higher-frequency rotational-harmonic amplitudes. Good agreement is shown between an experimentally obtained rotational-harmonic spectrum caused by tooth-surface damage and that predicted from damage measured on the failing teeth. Substantial increases in high-frequency rotational-harmonic amplitudes are shown to be expected from gear teeth undergoing significant plastic deformation in late stages of bending-fatigue failure. Accurate assessment of damage contributions using before-damage non-negligible rotational-harmonic amplitudes (sideband harmonics, etc.) are shown to suggest use of complex rotational-harmonic amplitudes. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available