Thanks for the help,
rb1957, you are right - the bending of the teeth is insignificant compared to other factors - I think that the stiffness of the gearbox is mostly affected by the hertzian contact of the teeth. I just wanted to cover all bases in my model to start off with really. Once I...
Hi everyone,
I am attempting to model the stiffness of a gearbox using none FEA methods, and the way I have approached it so far is to break down the gear into a load of separate elements to analyse each element's contribution to the stiffness, e.g. torsional stiffness of the bulk of the gear...
