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A Novel Gear Test Rig with Adjustable Shaft Compliance and Misalignments Part I: Design

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Advances in Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations

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This paper describes the design aspects for a new gear test rig aimed at adjusting the influence of shaft compliance on gear meshing stiffness, while allowing the operator to impose gear misalignments. Static and dynamic testing is possible for the most important gear-related physical quantities: Transmission Error, relative displacements, tooth root strain, transmitted torque. The discussed test rig has a mechanical power circulation arrangement, where two sides can be identified. One side is dedicated to testing a cylindrical gear pair; the other side is needed for retaining a torque preload in the system by means of a second gear pair. Relative misalignment can be imposed between the test gears in the five possible degrees of freedom (three parallel misalignments, two angular misalignments). Shaft compliance can be adjusted by setting the axial position of the gears before fastening them to the shafts.

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the IWT (Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders) for the financial support through the project HEV-NVH (Agr. 110360).

The authors are also grateful to Dr. Giorgio Bonori, Italian distributor for Ansol LLC, for providing free academic license and support for the software Transmission 3D. Similar acknowledgement goes to Mr. Ivan Saltini, Italian distributor for KiSSsoft AG, for providing free academic license for the software KISSsoft.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Calabria, Ponte Pietro Bucci, 87036, Rende, Italy

    A. Palermo & D. Mundo

  2. LMS International, Interleuvenlaan 68, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium

    J. Anthonis

  3. Department Mechanical Engineering, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300 B, B-3001, Heverlee, Belgium

    A. Palermo & W. Desmet

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  1. Engineering Department, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Giorgio Dalpiaz

  2. Department of Science and Engineering Methods, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Riccardo Rubini

  3. Engineering Department, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Gianluca D'Elia

  4. Department of Science and Engineering Methods, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Marco Cocconcelli

  5. Mechanical Engineering Department, National School of Engineers of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Fakher Chaari

  6. Institute of Mining Engineering, Diagnostics and Vibro-Acoustics Science Laboratory, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Radoslaw Zimroz

  7. Institute of Mining Engineering, Diagnostics and Vibro-Acoustics Science Laboratory, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Walter Bartelmus

  8. Mechanical Engineering Department, National School of Engineers of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Mohamed Haddar

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Palermo, A., Anthonis, J., Mundo, D., Desmet, W. (2014). A Novel Gear Test Rig with Adjustable Shaft Compliance and Misalignments Part I: Design. In: Dalpiaz, G., et al. Advances in Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39348-8_43

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