The Fault Characteristics of Planetary Gear System with Tooth Breakage

Abstract:

Tooth breakage is a typical failure form of wind-turbine planetary gear transmission system, it is important to study the influence of tooth breakage on vibration characteristics of planetary gear transmission system. In this paper, considering the tooth breakage defect, a lumped parameter vibration model of a planetary gear system with time-periodic mesh stiffness is established. Effects of the length and width of tooth breakage on meshing stiffness and dynamic response are discussed in detail. The relation between characteristic frequency of the tooth breakage fault and rotating speeds is pointed out. Several statistical indicators are utilized to show the influence of two parameters (length of planet tooth breakage and input speed) on the dynamic response of the system. Experiments are carried out to verify the simulation results. These results would be useful for fault diagnosis of wind turbine transmission system at different operation conditions.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 569-570)
• Pages: 489-496
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.569-570.489
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Yong Gui, Qin Kai Han, Zheng Li, Zhi Ke Peng, Fu Lei Chu
• Keywords: Dynamic Response, Planetary Gear System, Tooth Breakage

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