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Analysis of the elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) of gears generally assumes that the tooth flanks are smooth surfaces. There is considerable interest in establishing the extent to which smooth surface analyses are distorted by the presence of surface roughness. The current paper concerns a different scale of deviation from the specified surface profile, namely involute profile error. The paper quantifies the deviation from the smooth surface behaviour using standard profile error measurements, and also considers how the means by which profile error is measured influences the outcome/conclusions. Transient EHL analyses of the meshing cycle of helical gears taking profile error data from a gear measuring machine are compared with analyses using equivalent measurements determined by the waviness from surface profilometer measurements.
Author(s): Clarke A, Jamali HU, Sharif KJ, Evan HP, Frazer R, Shaw B
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Tribology International
Year: 2017
Volume: 111
Pages: 184-191
Print publication date: 01/07/2017
Online publication date: 22/02/2017
Acceptance date: 21/02/2017
Date deposited: 16/03/2017
ISSN (print): 0301-679X
ISSN (electronic): 1879-2464
Publisher: Pergamon Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2017.02.034
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2017.02.034
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