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Automotive Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (4): 725-734.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2024.04.018

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Gear Rattle Dynamic Analysis Considering Manufacturing Error and Oil Film Force

Xiaohui Shi1(),Yi Zhou2,3,Huihui Xu3,Dong Guo1,Ziyuan Mei3,Xuefang Cui2   

  1. 1.Chongqing University of Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology for Automobiles Parts, Ministry of Education, Chongqing  400054
    2.College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing  400044
    3.Product Engineering, Magna PT Powertrain (Jiangxi) Co. , Ltd. , Nanchang  330013
  • Received:2023-09-20 Revised:2023-10-12 Online:2024-04-25 Published:2024-04-24
  • Contact: Xiaohui Shi E-mail:shixiaohui@cqut.edu.cn

Abstract:

In order to accurately evaluate the rattle performance of the gearbox unloaded gear under angular acceleration excitation, a ten-degree-of-freedom torsional dynamic model for the dual-clutch transmission rattle bench test is established using the lumped parameter method. Based on consideration of the contact time varying mesh stiffness, backlash nonlinearities and drag torque, the gear manufacturing error and the oil film induced-force are further considered. Bench test results show that the oil film induced-force model containing oil film entraining and squeeze effects can correctly simulate the transmission rattle response. Numerical analysis results show that lubricant film can reduce the mesh impact induced by the error-induced displacement excitation and time-varying mesh stiffness parametric excitation. The gear rattle intensity increases with the increase of manufacturing error amplitude, and when the error amplitude increases to a certain value, the gear pair produces rattle phenomenon with null angular acceleration as well. The influence of oil temperature on gear rattle is related to the angular acceleration excitation. When there is no angular acceleration excitation, the low-frequency circumferential error with low-amplitude at low-temperature changes the direction of the oil film force and hence produce gear rattle. The rattle response frequency caused by oil film hydrodynamic force is lower than that generated by the structural tooth contact. The rattle intensity increases as the temperature increases in a convex function once the angular acceleration excitation is applied at transmission input shaft.

Key words: unloaded gear, gear rattle, manufacturing error, oil film induced-force