Contact Stress on the Surface of Gear Teeth with Different Profile

Contact stress is an important problem in industry. This is a problem that in the first attention may be don-t appears, but disregard of these stresses cause a lot of damages in machines. These stresses occur at locations such as gear teeth, bearings, cams and between a locomotive wheel and the railroad rail. These stresses cause failure by excessive elastic deformation, yielding and fracture. In this paper we intend show the effective parameters in contact stress and ponder effect of curvature. In this paper we study contact stresses on the surface of gear teeth and compare these stresses for four popular profiles of gear teeth (involute, cycloid, epicycloids, and hypocycloid). We study this problem with mathematical and finite element methods and compare these two methods on different profile surfaces.

Authors:

• K. Farhangdoost
• H. Heirani

Keywords:

• Contact stress
• Cycloid
• Epicycloids
• Finite element
• Gear
• Hypocycloid
• Involute
• Radius of curvature.

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