WIT Press


Surface Fatigue Crack Growth In The Contact Area Of Gear Teeth Flanks

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

24

Pages

10

Published

1999

Size

907 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/CON990031

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

S. Glodez, Z. Ren & B.R. Hohn

Abstract

The paper describes a two-dimensional computational model for simulation of surface initiated fatigue crack growth in the contact area of gear teeth flanks. The discretised model of gear teeth is subjected to normal loading (Hertzian contact pressure), tangential loading (friction between gear teeth flanks) and additional external contact forces that arise from the EHD-lubrication conditions. The J- integral method in the framework of the finite element analysis is used for simulation of the fatigue crack propagation from the initial to the critical crack length, when the surface material layer breaks away and pit appears on the surface. The comparison of c

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