Research on Influence of Intertooth Space Confriction to Transmission Efficiency under EHL

Abstract:

Engagement between gear teeth with confriction has been analyzed aim at low speed and heavy transmission mode of spur gear in aerogenerator gearbox. Nonlinear relation between parameters such as confriction, normal pressure, number of teeth, ratio of transmission, and thickness of fluid film has been deduced by using the theory of elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) and gear mesh. Numerical calculation of these equations has been made progress by using MATLAB software under the premise of no analytical solution. The efficiency of each point on line of action has been received. And then the influence of confriction in intertooth space to transmission efficiency under EHL has been analyzed. The results can be provided as argument and numerical value reference for optimization of the gearbox lectotype in areogenerator to make the efficiency maximized, and for further research on transmission efficiency of planet gear train.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 605-607)
• Pages: 1158-1163
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.605-607.1158
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Wen Hong Liang, Kai Liu, Xiao Lin Liu, Ya Hui Cui
• Keywords: Confriction in Intertooth Space, Efficiency of Mesh in Intertooth Space, EHL, Elastic Fluid, Gearbox in Aerogenerator, MATLAB

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