Ensuring the Quality of Manufacturing Gear Transmissions in Power Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

The development of modern power engineering goes along the line of continuous increase of speeds, efficiency and power units. Gears and gearboxes are crucial parts of modern mechanisms and occupy an important place in the domestic power engineering industry. The strength and durability of gears, in addition to design factors, to a large extent depends on the processing techniques. The final stage of manufacturing such wheels is the gear grinding operation. In the process of tooth-grinding, complex and unique thermomechanical processes take place in the thin surface layer. As a result of short-term heating to high temperatures, structural transformations, called prizhogami, occur in such a surface layer, and in some cases even micro and macro-cracks. In addition, there are cases of manufacturing gears with hidden grinding defects (for example, the appearance in the surface layer of teeth of large tensile stresses), which reduces the service life, and in some cases causes the teeth to break under operating conditions. The development of effective measures to ensure the quality of the surface layer during a gear grinding operation largely depends on the ability to predict (or calculate) temperatures and residual stresses along the depth of the cemented tooth layer. A method for calculating the internal residual stresses arising during gear grinding of wheels from cemented steels is proposed. On the basis of the performed calculations and experiments, the ways of improving the quality of manufacturing the working surfaces of gears used in units of thermal and nuclear power plants are proposed and substantiated.

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