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Gear Misalignment
Advanced Simulation and Consulting Services
Gear design is a seemingly linear problem, with many types of gear designs available in mechanical engineering handbooks. The handbook formulas are not applicable, however, for misaligned gears or for more compliant gears; for example, the plastic gears in computer printers.
Gear interaction is an area where misfit and misaligned parts must still function. The design and analysis challenges are significant and include:
- Design for optimum fatigue life
- Misfit and out-of-spec parts and alignment
- Complex contact
- Kinematic (mechanism) response
SIMULIA's simulation software and our team of engineers can assist you with complex gear designs by developing simulation models that answer fundamental questions about your gear train performance. Our experienced engineers, together with the Abaqus Unified FEA product suite's strong contact analysis capability, efficient large problem solution, and the flexibility to parameterize the model, can make the misalignment analysis of both metallic and polymeric gears straightforward.
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