FEM USE FOR EVALUATION OF TRANSMISSION ERROR IN GEAR

Gears analyses in the past were performed using analytical methods, which required a number of assumptions and simplifications. In general, gear analyses are multidisciplinary, including calculations related to the tooth stresses and to tribological failures such as like wear or scoring. In this paper, static contact and bending stress analyses were performed, while trying to design spur gears to resist bending failure and pitting of the teeth, as both affect transmission error. This paper is to develop a model to study and predict the transmission error model including the contact stresses, and the torsional mesh stiffness of gears in mesh using the ANSYS software package based on numerical method. The aim is to reduce the amount of transmission error in the gears, and thereby reduce the amount of noise generate.