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Help Calculating AGMA Pitting Geometry Factor
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Help Calculating AGMA Pitting Geometry Factor

Help Calculating AGMA Pitting Geometry Factor

(OP)
I'm using AGMA 908-B89 and trying to calculate "I" for a pair of external spur gears.  I can't seem to match the "I" calculation from Equation 4.1 with the values published in the tables in Paragraph 7.

For example, 20 deg pressure angle, 0 deg helix angle, equal addendum Np=21, Ng=135.  I get I=0.139 using Equation 4.1, but the tables show I=0.118.

I tried to figure it out from Appendix A, but I'm stuck.  The value of "I" I get from equation 4.1 is exactly equal to the value of Cc from equation A.13.

Can anyone help explain what I might be missing?

RE: Help Calculating AGMA Pitting Geometry Factor

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It would appear that you need to "normalize" the following
dimensions: (Cr, Ro1, Ro2) per the second paragraph of section 3. BASIC GEAR GEOMETRY

This would then give these as:

Cr = 78
Ro1 = 11.5
Ro2 = 68.5
Rb1 = 9.866
Rb2 = 63.429

using these would calculate
Rm1 = 10.5
p1 = 2.955
p2 = 23.722

Using these would yield a value of 0.118 for the I factor

Hope this helps

Chris
 

RE: Help Calculating AGMA Pitting Geometry Factor

(OP)
Quite easy to miss a key point, but it actually doesn't matter.  When I was updating the calculations per your comment, I realized that I had erroneously used the helical gear formula (Eq. 4.4) for the pinion radius of curvature instead of the spur gear formula (Eq. 4.6).

When I corrected the formula for rho(1), I got the correct pitting resistance factor without non-dimensionalizing the variables.

Attached is the corrected calculation.

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