Meshing characteristics of spur gear pairs with tooth modification under different assembly errors and sensitivity analysis for impact factors

Assembly errors may change contact state of gear pairs, then induce failure and vibration. To reveal the effects of assembly errors and tooth modification on the meshing characteristics, the loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) is conducted through an improved algorithm. The time-varying meshing stiffness (TVMS), static transmission error (STE) and contact stress (CS) are calculated considering assembly errors and tooth modification. Then, sensitivity of meshing characteristics to coupling assembly errors are investigated based on the design of orthogonal experiment (DOE). The meshing characteristic analysis results show that assembly errors have a significant effect on mesh characteristics of the gear pair. The results of sensitivity analysis indicate that the meshing characteristic is the most sensitive to axial deviation for the model used in this paper.