Vibration of Planetary Gears With Elastically Deformable Ring Gears Parametrically Excited by Mesh Stiffness Fluctuations

The parametric instability of planetary gears having elastic continuum ring gears is analytically investigated based on a hybrid continuous-discrete model. Mesh stiffness variations of the sun-planet and ring-planet meshes caused by the changing number of teeth in contact are the source of parametric instability. The natural frequencies of the time invariant system are either distinct or degenerate with multiplicity two, which indicates three types of combination instabilities: distinct-distinct, distinct-degenerate and degenerate-degenerate instabilities. By using the structured modal properties of planetary gears and the method of multiple scales, the instability boundaries are obtained as simple expressions in terms of mesh parameters. Instability existence rules for in-phase planet meshes are given. The instability boundaries are validated numerically.Copyright © 2009 by ASME

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