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Gear Strength & Shaft hole relation

04/16/2010 11:17 AM

Would you please point me to a reliable source of reference that will tell me what relation exists between the Stregnth of a Gear material and a hole machined into the gear.

Say I design a spur gear pair, selecting its module m = 7 & number of teeth Tp = 20, thereby finding its mean diameter, and evaluate that a gear of such dimension, in order to sustain the load, will have to be machined out of a material having a UTS of 750 MPa.

Now if I were to machine a hole of 50 mm through the gear, then by what amount would the required UTS of the material be increased so that the gear can sustain the Torque and load it is expected to take and would have taken had a soild gear been machined with a material of 750 MPa UTS

A reliable online publicaly accessible source of reference would be highly appreciated

TIA

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Re: Gear Strength & Shaft hole relation

04/16/2010 2:48 PM

This is your gear as you describe it. You see that the section used for the tooth computation has about 12 mm height and the section of the "tooth support" has a height of 36 mm.

This means that the inertia moment of the ring section is (36/12)^3= 27 times more important the one of the tooth. Or the influence of the ring can compromise NOT the tooth resistance but can allow a "rotation of the tooth" and change the working conditions especially on the flanks. In general the ring stiffness MUST be a lot higher than the one of the tooth root. In your case it is respected.

If you did not understand continue to put the questions till you fully understood.

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