Parametric Transition as a Spiral Curve and Its Application in Spur Gear Tooth with FEA

The exploration of this paper will focus on the Cshaped transition curve. This curve is designed by using the concept of circle to circle where one circle lies inside other. The degree of smoothness employed is curvature continuity. The function used in designing the C-curve is Bézier-like cubic function. This function has a low degree, flexible for the interactive design of curves and surfaces and has a shape parameter. The shape parameter is used to control the C-shape curve. Once the C-shaped curve design is completed, this curve will be applied to design spur gear tooth. After the tooth design procedure is finished, the design will be analyzed by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). This analysis is used to find out the applicability of the tooth design and the gear material that chosen. In this research, Cast Iron 4.5 % Carbon, ASTM A-48 is selected as a gear material.

Authors:

• S. H. Yahaya
• J. M. Ali
• T.A. Abdullah

Keywords:

• Bézier-like cubic function
• Curvature continuity
• Cshapedtransition curve
• Spur gear tooth.

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