A lightweight and low vibration amplitude web design method was investigated to reduce gear weight and noise. It was based upon the relationship between length and orthogonality that the principal stress lines were designed at the gear web. By constructing a vibration control model with gear design parameters, the optimal distance was calculated. By offsetting the principal stress lines at the optimal distance, the lightweight gear web with the low vibration amplitude was then generated. A vibration experimental platform was built to verify the novel gear vibration performances, and it was compared with other gears with the same web's porosity to verify loading performance. The experimental results indicated that compared with the solid gear, the novel gear is 20.50% lighter and with a 29.46% vibration amplitude reduction.
Citation: Ganjun Xu, Ning Dai, Sukun Tian. Principal stress lines based design method of lightweight and low vibration amplitude gear web[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2021, 18(6): 7060-7075. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2021351
A lightweight and low vibration amplitude web design method was investigated to reduce gear weight and noise. It was based upon the relationship between length and orthogonality that the principal stress lines were designed at the gear web. By constructing a vibration control model with gear design parameters, the optimal distance was calculated. By offsetting the principal stress lines at the optimal distance, the lightweight gear web with the low vibration amplitude was then generated. A vibration experimental platform was built to verify the novel gear vibration performances, and it was compared with other gears with the same web's porosity to verify loading performance. The experimental results indicated that compared with the solid gear, the novel gear is 20.50% lighter and with a 29.46% vibration amplitude reduction.
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Ganjun Xu, Ning Dai, Sukun Tian. Principal stress lines based design method of lightweight and low vibration amplitude gear web[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2021, 18(6): 7060-7075. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2021351
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