Abstract
Gear tooth breakage due to bending fatigue is one of the most dangerous failure modes of gears. Therefore, the precise definition of tooth bending strength is of utmost importance in gear design. Single tooth bending fatigue (STBF) tests are usually used to study this failure mode since they allow to test gears, realized and finished with the actual industrial processes. Nevertheless, STBF tests do not reproduce exactly the loading conditions of meshing gears. The load is applied in a predetermined position, while in meshing gears, it moves along the active flank; all the teeth can be tested and have the same importance, while the actual strength of a meshing gear, practically, is strongly influenced by the strength of the weakest tooth of the gear. These differences have to be (and obviously are) taken into account when using the results of STBF tests to design gear sets. The aim of this article is to investigate in detail the first aspect, i.e. the role of the differences between two tooth root stress histories. In particular, this article presents a methodology based on high-cycle multi-axial fatigue criteria to translate STBF test data to the real working condition; residual stresses are also taken into account.
Issue Section:
Design of Direct Contact Systems
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