“…Modeling for various gear systems has been conducted [14,16,17], including the interactions between the components [18,19] and also the influence of a particular parameter on the gear noise [8,[20][21][22][23][24]. Meanwhile, various solution techniques, such as analog/digital simulation [25][26][27], numerical integration [2,4,5,28,29], harmonic balance method [30][31][32][33][34], and multiple scale method [35], are used to illustrate the nonlinear characteristics of the gear system including stability of the periodic solution [34,[36][37][38][39], bifurcation and chaos [2,19,28,32,40,41]. Suggestions for reducing actual noise are also made [42,43], based on different criteria to evaluate the rattle noise [44,45].…”