Investigation of the effect of the angle between drive shafts on vibration responses of main reducer

Abstract

The drive shaft arrangement has a considerable influence on the vibration responses of the shaft-final drive system. In this research, a coupled vibration model is developed based on force analysis of hypoid gear and lumped mass method. The effect of time-varying mesh stiffness, gear backlash and transfer error are included to investigate the effect of the angle between drive shafts on vibration responses of main reducer. The vibration responses of main reducer are acquired using this model. The results show that the vibration amplitude of the gears of main reducer increase with the angle between drive shafts. This paper presents an analytical method to determine the value of the angle between drive shafts, so as to control the vibration of main reducer.