A DAE formulation for geared rotor dynamics including frictional contact between the teeth

A DAE approach is presented for geared rotor dynamics simulations with rigid helical evolvent gears. It includes the normal contact force between the teeth as well as tangential components.

Given the evolvent tooth flank geometry of gear 1 and gear 2 [1], the contact line and the velocity difference in the contact are found. The requirement of no penetration of the teeth yields a non-holonomic constraint and the contact normal force. The friction caused force and moment are obtained by applying Coulomb's friction model.

This approach is used to investigate the dynamics of two ideal rotors with translational DoFs, which are connected by gears to one another. The driving rotor has a given angular speed, while the driven rotates unrestrainedly and is connected to a rotational damper. Because of the periodic friction terms, the solution is periodic. A direct time integration or a harmonic approach can be used for the numerical computation. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)