REVIEW ARTICLE
Reliability Analysis on Gear Contact Fatigue Strength Considering the Effect of Tolerance
Guowei Li*, Weijian Mi, Kailiang Lu, Weiguo Zhang
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2014Volume: 8
First Page: 630
Last Page: 635
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-8-630
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01408010630
Article History:
Received Date: 25/11/2014Revision Received Date: 08/01/2015
Acceptance Date: 20/01/2015
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2014
Collection year: 2014
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Tolerance allocation influences product performance especially for miniature precise assembly device. The purpose of this paper is to explore an approach to optimize manufacturing tolerances by combining the reliability of product performance indicators under actual working condition. The paper describes the principle and ways of tolerance handling in the finite element control equations for the displacement and stress, and then introduces the implementation of Monte-Carlo Finite Element Analysis method. We illustrate this method on a gear-tooth of port-cleaning-equipment gear pump and carry out the reliability analysis on gear contact fatigue strength considering the effect of manufacturing tolerance, and a sensitivity analysis is also performed to identify the key tolerances and improve them in order to attain the expected reliability.
