Study on contact fatigue of a wind turbine gear pair considering surface roughness  

作　　者：Heli LIU Huaiju LIU Caichao ZHU Zhangdong SUN Houyi BAI 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmissions,Chongqing University,Chongqing 400030,China [2]Hubei University of Automotive Technology,Shiyan 442002,Hubei,China [3]Chongqing Wangjiang Industrial Co.Chongqing,400071,China

出　　处：《Friction》2020年第3期553-567,共15页摩擦（英文版）

基　　金：The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U1864210,51775060,and 51705043);Chongqing Research Program on Technology Innovation and Application Demonstration(No.cstc2018jszx-cyzdX0053).

摘　　要：Contact fatigue issues become more and more crucial in gear industry as they significantly affect the reliability and service life of associated mechanical systems such as wind turbine gearboxes.The contact fatigue behavior is mostly determined by the mechanical properties of materials and stress fields near the contact area,which is further influenced by the lubrication and surface roughness due to pressure fluctuations.In this study,a numerical model incorporating the lubrication state,tooth surface roughness,residual stress,and mechanical properties of the material is developed to determine the contact fatigue behavior of a megawatt level wind turbine carburized gear.The variations of the hardness and residual stress along the depth were characterized by the Vickers hardness measurement and X-ray diffraction test,respectively.The elastohydrodynamic lubrication theory was applied to predict the contact pressure distribution,highlighting the influence of the surface roughness that stemed from the original measurement through an optical profiler.The stress histories of the studied material points during a complete contact loading cycle were fast calculated using the discreteconcrete fast Fourier transformation(DC-FFT)method.Modified Dang Van diagrams under different working conditions were determined to estimate the contact fatigue failure risk.The effect of the root mean square(RMS)value of the surface roughness on the failure risk at critical material points were discussed in detail.Results revealed that the surface roughness significantly increases the contact fatigue failure risk within a shallow area,and the maximum risk appears near the surface.

关 键 词：carburized gear contact fatigue surface roughness residual stress Dang Van criterion 

分 类 号：TM315[电气工程—电机]