Parametric modeling and contact analysis of helical gears with modifications

An approach for a mathematical model and contact analysis of helical gears including tip relief, root relief, end relief and longitudinal crowning modification was developed. First, tooth profile equations of non-modified involutes, tip reliefs, root reliefs and fillets were derived after applying gear principles and coordinate transformation to transverse cross section profiles of a rack cutter. Then the intersecting lines between different profiles were solved through by Gauss-Newton numerical method. Parametric modeling program of modified helical gears was obtained to automatically generate exact gear surfaces of tip reliefs, root reliefs, end reliefs and longitudinal crowning modifications via Matlab code. Subsequently, an example of helical gear pair in practical engineering was presented, and the solid model and finite element model with modification were established. Finally, the dynamic contact characteristic of helical gear pair was calculated by three-dimensional dynamic contact finite element method. It is expected that the proposed approach can be applied in analyzing the effect of modification on radiation noise prediction of gear system in further study.