Abstract
Face gear drives in first-stage gear drives of helicopter main gearboxes occupy several strong points versus traditional spiral bevel gear drives, and are addressed by many scholars. However, face gear vibration suppressions, such as calculation solutions of face gear dynamics associated with tooth profile modifications and influences of tooth profile modifications on face gear dynamic behaviors, are not to be investigated, according to the limited published issues. Thus, in the study, influence mechanisms of two version tooth profile modifications, namely, linear addendum modifications of face gears and arcuate dedendum modifications of pinions, on face gear dynamic base parameters, such as mesh stiffness and static transmission errors, are discussed, and calculation solutions of two version tooth profile modifications are constructed. Meanwhile, an equivalent evaluation solution between linear addendum modifications of face gears and arcuate dedendum modifications of pinions is proposed, and a four degree-of-freedom dynamic model of face gear drives is established. Furthermore, dynamic behaviors of an example case of face gear drives associated with two version tooth profile modifications are simulated. The results indicate dynamic behavior crises of face gear drives would not to be caused by two version tooth profile modifications, and when two version tooth profile modifications are equivalent, the effect of linear addendum modifications of face gears on dynamic mesh force suppressions at whole frequencies is better than that caused by arcuate dedendum modifications of pinions, while, as for mesh frequency, the dynamic mesh force suppression effect caused by arcuate dedendum modifications of pinions is better, and considered dynamic mesh force suppression average values associated with two version tooth profile modifications, arcuate dedendum modifications of pinions are recommended. These contributions would improve modification developments and engineering applications of face gear drives in the future.
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