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Temperature control-based design of variable damping and lightweight gear bodies

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The sustainability of today’s industry turned into a critical requirement on account of energy cost increases, environmental pollution, and carbon emissions. As an important segment in mechanical drive, the vibration and noise from gear transmission negatively impact the physical and psychological health of workers and interfere with the machine running. This paper proposes a new temperature-controlled vibration-damping lightening polymer composite gear model with a modified lightweight web structure. The characteristic of polymer (mechanical properties changed by structure temperature) was trying to be used for the gear damping variable control. The spur gear web was replaced with a spoke-like structure connected with a ring structure that adheres to the heating film. That was required to assure torsional rigidity and compliance meanwhile controlling the web structural damping performance. For experimental purposes, the gears were manufactured from three kinds of viscoelastic polymer using additive manufacturing technology. The gear frequency sweeping excitation testbed was built in the experiment. The vibration exciter and gear dynamic responses were measured through the force and torque sensor. In the tests, the modal frequency and damping of gears were measured at different temperatures by control heating films. The experimental result coincides with vibration analysis in the finite element (FE) method. Variable damping could be achieved by changing the viscoelastic polymer temperature and gear web structure. This research can provide guidance for the polymer material gear damping control in mechanical transmission applications.

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This paper was supported by Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) grant funded by the Korea Government (MOTIE) (20014615). This research was financially supported by the High-Level Foreign Expert Introduction Program (No. G2022035005L).

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    Jingrui Yang, Yihe Zhang & Chul-Hee Lee

  2. School of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Experimental schemes were proposed by Rui Li and Chul-Hee Lee. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Jingrui Yang and Yihe Zhang. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Jingrui Yang, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Yang, J., Zhang, Y., Li, R. et al. Temperature control-based design of variable damping and lightweight gear bodies. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 131, 1807–1821 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-024-13133-6

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