Nonlinear Behavior of A Spur Gear Pair Transmission System with Backlash

In order to investigate the nonlinear characteristics of gear transmission system under the action of external and internal excitations, a dynamic model of a spur gear pair was established involving the backlash, damping, transmission error and the meshing stiffness. Based on the incremental harmonic balance method (IHBM), the general forms of the periodic solution with arbitrary precision are deduced. The vibration response obtained by IHBM compare very well with the results obtained by New-Mark method, which verifies the accuracy and electiveness of the analytical methodology (IHBM) and provide information on the dynamic characteristic of spur gear. The simulation results revealed that several types of steady-state periodic solution are identified and determined by employing the IHBM. Due to the effect of backlash, the nonlinear characteristics of jump discontinuity phenomena and multiple stable solutions coexist and the meshing impact phenomenon are obvious. In addition, the influences of the system damping, transmission error and excitation amplitude on the amplitude frequency characteristic are illustrated by a series of diagrams. The results implicate that increasing the external excitation amplitude and system damping can effectively decrease the system resonant amplitude and control the nonlinear vibration response of the gear system and the effect of hardening spring behavior becomes weaker. The transmission error excitation amplitude variation also tends to worse the degree of nonlinearity. Therefore, it presents some useful information to reduce the vibration and noise of gear system.