Double Flank Gear Roll Inspection of Spur Gears Manufactured using Fused Deposition Modeling

Abstract

The paper presents an experimental study that has as main objective the evaluation of the integration capacity of the spur gears obtained by FDM in high precision mechanisms. The development of precision mechanical systems required the use of the additive layer manufacturing technology in order to manufacture the gears that have specific particularities for the applications in which gears are integrated. Take these aspects into consideration, the paper presents the results achieved by testing on a ZWP-06 machine the gears obtained by fused deposition modeling technology. Gears were obtained on an Anet A2, semiprofessional 3D printer. To obtain a superior quality of toothed wheels, both process parameters: the material properties, and the features of the 3D printer were taken into account. The results, obtained from the test, revealed the level of influence of the execution parameters of the toothed wheels by FDM on their quality. The correlation of the process parameters remains the most important aspect for obtaining components with a high accuracy class, which complies with the resistance standards under the conditions of a shorter execution time.