Development of a user friendly interface for design and analysis of parallel axes gears based on international standards including quasi static transmission error curves

Abstract

Gear design and analysis require good knowledge supported by well accepted standards submitted by ISO, AGMA, and DIN. Even by using standards, an engineer must carry out iterations for gear design because every property change influences other parameters. Checking influences manually is slow and prone to errors. These iterative calculations increase demand for design and analysis software. In this study, user friendly interface for design and analysis of parallel axes gears based on international standards was developed. Quasi static transmission error curves under different running loads were created and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) was applied to the predicted transmission error curves. A case study of spur gear pair design, analysis and transmission error curves construction were performed and results were compared with another widely used gear analysis software results.