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DOI10.3901/JME.2014.17.061

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Vibration Signal Simulation and Fault Diagnosis of Planetary Gearboxes

Based on Transmission Mechanism Analysis
LEI Yaguo1 TANG Wei1 KONG Detong2 LIN Jing1
(1. State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian 710049;
2. Huadian Electric Power Research Institute, Hangzhou 310030)

AbstractPlanetary gear transmission structures, consisting of sun gear, planet gears, ring gear, carrier etc., are more complex than
fixed-axis gear transmission structures. In planetary gearboxes, the vibration responses of multiple gear pair meshing couple with
each other, and the vibration transmission paths from gear meshing points to the fixed transducers are time-varying. Therefore, fault
diagnosis of the planetary gearboxes is more difficult compared to that of fixed-axis gearboxes, in which the vibration simulation
models are very important. By analyzing the transmission paths of each meshing vibration and synthetizing the phase differences
between different meshing vibrations, vibration simulation models of the planetary gearboxes are constructed and the vibration
signals based on the models are obtained. By comparing the signal characteristics of the faulty condition with the healthy one, faults
of the planetary gearboxes can be diagnosed. The constructed models are characterized by considering multiple gear pair meshing
and their phase relations, time-varying vibration transmission paths, modulations due to gear faults, etc. To test the proposed models,
the vibration signals are measured from a planetary gearbox test rig under the healthy condition, the sun gear with a cracked tooth
and a planet gear with a cracked tooth, respectively. The fault characteristics of the planetary gearboxes are summarized based on the
comparisons of the vibration signals between the models and the experiments.
Key wordsplanetary gearboxestransmission mechanismsignal simulationfault diagnosis

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