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Design and experimental study of the rolling-enhanced acoustic system for gear tooth surface

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Parameters of gear flanks, such as roughness, hardness, and residual stress, impact their working performance. Therefore, it is essential to optimize these parameters for increasing gears’ life. Thus, this study combined the meshing theory and the ultrasonic surface rolling technology and presented an innovative design to realize ultrasonic burnishing. First, the dimensions of the ultrasonic burnishing device with two nodes integrated with a gear at the bottom were calculated using frequency equations by a numerical method. Second, the correctness of the calculating results was verified by simulations and experiments. Third, the influence of the ratio between the width and diameter of the gear on the acoustic system was studied. Finally, experimental platform of the rolling-enhanced acoustic system for gear tooth surface is built successfully. A series of experiments were conducted, and the results showed that the roughness can be reduced by 76% at most, and the hardness and the residual stress can be increased by 53% and 415%, respectively. Therefore, this design provided a new theory and technology to machine complicated surfaces such as gear flanks.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U1604255 and 51475148).

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Yan Jiang conceived the analysis and wrote the manuscript. Bo Zhao provided supervisions on experimentation and manuscript preparation. The authors discussed each reference paper together and contributed useful ideas for this manuscript.

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Jiang, Y., Zhao, B. Design and experimental study of the rolling-enhanced acoustic system for gear tooth surface. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 119, 6489–6501 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-08658-7

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