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Whole fatigue life of helical gear covering crack initiation stage and propagation process

  • Guoping Zhao
  • , Huili Dong*
  • , Chunming Wang
  • , Liyi Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Beijing Research Institute of Precise Mechatronic Controls

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Abstract

A crack initiation model was built for helical gear based on the risk accumulation theory considering influences of the tribo-dyanmic characteristics on the contact pressure under mixed EHL interface. In the modeling of short crack propagation, the non-linear and discontinuous characteristics were taken into account. Besides, a unified equation for long crack propagation covering various cracks with different scales was proposed to predict the whole fatigue life of gear pair. The results show that the contact pressure was significantly influenced by the dynamic meshing force and mixed lubricating performance. Several peaks of the effective shear stress appeared in subsurface due to the residual stress, which led to different contact failure forms after numbers of periodical meshing impacts.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)643-649
Number of pages7
JournalTribology
Volume36
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Fatigue crack
  • Helical gear
  • Initiation life
  • Propagation life
  • Residual stress
  • Tribo-dynamic

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