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Single Flank Rolling Mesh Test

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Single Flank Rolling Mesh Error

Fig. 1 gear meshing in single flank rolling meshing test

With single-flank testing, mating gears roll together at


their proper fixed center distance with backlash and with
only one flank in contact. Testing gears in this manner is
more closely simulates operation of the gears in their
application than any other means of evaluation. Gears can
be tested by pairs, or with master gears.

The single-flank test is run using optical encoders, which


measure rotational motion (angular displacement error).
Encoders are attached to the input and output shafts of a
special machine for testing pairs of gears. Data from the
encoders is processed in an instrument that shows the
accuracy or smoothness of rotational motion resulting
from the meshing of the gears (transmission errors). This

Dr. Moh. Adel Rizk


data can be directly related to portions of involute or
profile errors, pitch variation, runout and accumulated
pitch variation.

Figure 2 shows the principle of operation of single-flank


measuring machine. The two motions which are to be
compared are monitored by circular optical gratings. Each
grating produces a train of pulses having a frequency
which is a measure of the angular movement of each
corresponding shaft and hence of each gear mounted
thereon. Pulse frequencies from each grating are usually
different because the gear ratio is not normally 1:1. It is,
therefore, necessary to modify the frequency from shaft

Dr. Moh. Adel Rizk


Z1 based upon the frequency from shaft Z2, which is
hereby established as the reference frequency.

where: Z1 = the number of teeth in the gear on shaft 1


and Z2 = the number of teeth in the gear on shaft 2.

If the driven gear on shaft 2 is perfect, then the output


signal from shaft 2 has a frequency of f2 which is
nominally identical to the modulated frequency from the
grating fitted with the driving shaft f2ref. However, f2 has
superimposed on it a frequency modulation due to
transmission errors of the gears under test. Therefore, the
pulse train coming from the grating on shaft 2 will have
small differences in phase from the pulse train for shaft 1.
This phase difference between the two (f2 and f2ref)
represents the amount of error in the gears being tested
(transmission error). Phase differences of less than one
arc-second can be detected. This difference is recorded as
an analog waveform and comes out of the instrument on
a strip chart, as shown in Figure 3. The graph in Figure 3
shows adjacent pitch error, total accumulated pitch error
and total transmission error

Dr. Moh. Adel Rizk


Dr. Moh. Adel Rizk

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