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Numerical simulation of the thermal behavior of natural fiber composite gears: case of HDPE 40

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Département de Génie Mécanique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs, Université de Lomé, B.P. 1515 Lomé, Togo
  • 2Maître de Conférences, Département de Génie Mécanique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs, Université de Lomé, B.P. 1515 Lomé, Togo
  • 3Professeur Titulaire, Directeur du Pôle R&D Francophone sur les Engrenages en Plastique – Ecole d’ingénierie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, CP 500, Trois-Rivières, Québec, G9A 5H7, Canada
  • 4Professeur Titulaire, Département de Génie Mécanique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs, Université de Lomé, B.P. 1515 Lomé, Togo

Res. J. Engineering Sci., Volume 8, Issue (3), Pages 20-32, September,26 (2019)

Abstract

This study is the continuation of the work to adapt the wood fiber composite materials to the gears, to manufacture a new generation of gears and to predict the thermomechanical behavior of these gears. In this part we are interested in the thermal study. Simulation studies of thermal behavior led to the knowledge of the evolution of the equilibrium temperature and the instantaneous temperature on the tooth profile as a function of S/pn, the normalized position of the contact point, by varying the wear rate. The distribution of the local instantaneous temperature Tson the Hertz contact width as a function of the position of the contact point along this width has also been studied. The study of the thermal behavior revealed that the instantaneous temperature is always higher than the equilibrium temperature on the profile of the tooth, except at the primitive point where the two temperatures are confused. Also, there is no significant difference between the instantaneous pinion and wheel temperatures and in addition the applied wear rates have no significant influence on the temperatures.

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