A Proposed Life Calculation for Micropitting 齿轮微点蚀寿命计算.docVIP

——————————————————————————————————————————————— A Proposed Life Calculation for Micropitting 齿轮微点蚀寿命计算 V O I C E S A Proposed Life Calculation for Micropitting Dave Barnett, Gear Design Consultant If you make hardened gears and have not seen any micropitting, then you haven’t looked closely enough. Micropitting is one of the modes of failure that has more recently become of concern to gear designers and manufac-turers. Micropitting in itself is not necessarily a problem, but it can lead to noise and sometimes other more serious forms of failure. Predicting when this will occur is the challenge facing designers. The new ISO/TR 15144-1 2010 has gone some way to address the problem by proposing a procedure for rating a gear’s ability to resist micropitting based on specified oil and operating conditions. However, it is not possible to determine a life for micropitting damage that can be toler-ated. One method for determining the “permissible specific lubricant film thickness” is the FVA-FZG-micropitting test, which has the advantage that it is used by the oil industry as a rating procedure for oils with its additives package to resist micropitting. In this test the C type gear, which is a spur gear with a true involute profile, (i.e., no tip or root relief), is run for five different loads until 0.0075 mm flank erosion is reached. This load stage is designated the FZG load stage for the oil. Load stage five is a poor rating and 10 is considered a good oil. The downside of this test is that if the oil has a rating of load stage five, the gears have only been run for 16 hours, and if it is load stage 10, then 75 hours. The fact that the test stops at 0.0075 mm—unless you run the endur- Example of micropitting damage I. ance test—does not mean that micropitting stops. It can still continue, and after another 75 hours could have doubled. For example, if you run the standard FZG test gear with an oil that has a designated FZG load stage 10 at a