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Investigation on the effects of tooth profile deviation in gear rolling process

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Gear rolling is a cold-forming process by using a cylindrical blank to produce gear teeth with high strength, good surface finish, and high material utilization rate. Gear tooth profile deviation is one of the most important factors in evaluating the gear accuracy. In order to understand the forming process of gear tooth, this paper is dedicated to studying the rolling process from geometry relation based on gear mesh theory. Then, the way of material flow to form the gear tooth in the rolling process is investigated by finite element method. The comparison results show that tooth profile rolled by standard rigid body tool still has a certain tooth profile deviation and tooth thickness deviation during the process of one-way rolling. The left side of the rolled gears has a longer effective length and a worse profile deviation than the right side. The increase in material plasticity and a slower increase in reduction are conducive to improving the accuracy of the precision of the formed workpiece the height of the effective tooth profile. This research will be helpful for process parameter selection and subsequent research for defect compensation.

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This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 51775062).

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  1. College of Mechanical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, People’s Republic of China

    Bo Peng, Yuanxin Luo, Hao Wang, Tong Niu & Yongqin Wang

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Bo Peng analyzed the simulation data and completed the draft; Yuanxin Luo instructed the revision of the draft; Yongqin Wang provided constructive suggestions on modeling; and Hao Wang and Tong Niu contributed to the experiments and profile measurement. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Peng, B., Luo, Y., Wang, H. et al. Investigation on the effects of tooth profile deviation in gear rolling process. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 126, 1877–1887 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-023-11207-5

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