Meshing Stiffness—A Parameter Affecting the Emission of Gearboxes

Abstract

Emission is one of the key problems in the automotive industry, which engineers try to eliminate by lowering emissions to the minimum. Transmission emission plays an important part here. The basic characteristics of gears include their shape, load capacity, and emissions. The most significant source of noise and vibration in the gearbox is the step change in the meshing stiffness of the gearing, which depends on the path of meshing at the entry and exit of the meshed teeth. Ensuring a permanent multi-pair mesh is a way to mitigate these step changes as much as possible. This leads to the design and implementation of gears in an integer contact ratio. In addition to this, the article deals with the impact of individual parameters on the stiffness of the gearing, which is a source of noise and vibration. The meshing stiffness of the gearing was determined on the deformation basis of the gearing, as solved by the Finite Element Method.