Increasing the Strength of Standard Involute Gear Teeth with Novel Circular Root Fillet Design
- 1 Laboratory of Machine Elements, Mechanical Engineering Department National Technical University of Athens, Iroon Politechniou 9, 15780, Athens, Greece
Abstract
In this study the idea of spur gear teeth with circular instead of the standard trochoidal root fillet is introduced and investigated numerically using BEM. The strength of these new teeth is studied in comparison with the standard design by discretizing the tooth boundary using isoparametric Boundary Elements. In order to facilitate the analysis the teeth are treated as non-dimensional assuming unitary loading normal to the profile at their Highest Point of Single Tooth Contact (HPSTC), so that non-dimensional stress vs. Contact ratio diagrams are plotted. The analysis demonstrates that the novel teeth exhibit higher bending strength (up to 70%) in certain cases without affecting the pitting resistance since the geometry of the load carrying involute is not changed. The circular fillet design is particularly suitable in gear with a small number of teeth (pinions) and these novels gears can replace their existing counterparts in any mechanism without any alterations. Finally the geometry of the generating tool (i.e. rack) is determined in order to be able to cut these teeth using a generating method (i.e. hobbing).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2005.1058.1064
Copyright: © 2005 V. Spitas, Th. Costopoulos and C. Spitas. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Spur gears
- circular fillet
- root stress
- generating rack
- BEM