Static stress analysis of a composite bevel gear using a three-dimensional finite element method

✍ Scribed by S. Vijayarangan; N. Ganesan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 530 KB
• Volume: 51
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0045-7949
• DOI: 10.1016/s0045-7949(05)80017-3

✦ Synopsis

Al~tract--The possibility of using composite materials for power transmission spur gear, from a static strength point of vi©w, have been proved by the authors in their previous study. In this present work an attempt has been made to study the behaviour of composite bevel gear from a static load point of view using a three-dimensional finite element method. The performance of two composite material bevel gears are presented and compared with a carbon steel gear. From a static strength point of view a glass epoxy bevel gear is slightly closer to a carbon steel bevel gear than a boron/epoxy bevel gear; but from a displacement point of view glass/epoxy deviates from that of carbon steel much more than boron/epoxy, unfike the case of a composite spur gear, where boron/epoxy was better both from strength and displacement points of view. Hence from the results it is concluded that composite materials such as boron/epoxy can be very much thought of as a material for power transmission bevel gears.