Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering and Intelligent Materials (ICMEIM 2017)

A Study on Axial Bearings Lubrication Characteristics in High-speed Planetary Transmissions of Vehicles

Authors
Hong-wei Wang, Kai Huang, Yuan Su
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Hong-wei Wang
Available Online February 2017.
DOI
10.2991/icmeim-17.2017.108How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Planetary Transmissions, Axial Bearings, Lubricating Characteristics
Abstract

To reduce the wear of thrust washer within straight planetary gear set, hydrodynamic lubrication design was studied by way of machining grooves in the radial direction into sides of thrust washer. Such grooves can result in a hydrodynamic pressure to separate the contact surfaces and reduce the wear accordingly. Based on mass boundary conditions, the Reynolds equation was discretized using control volume method. The results show that, to increase the axial clearance and groove depth, to decrease groove width ratio and groove number can decrease the friction between planetary gear transverse and axial bearing surface. The fluid flow increased when groove depth and groove numbers increased. The bearings have the maximum load capacity when the groove number is 24 and the groove width ratio is 0.5. In engineering applications, make sure the groove depth is 10~40 m, and recommend assembling clearance between planet wheel and thrust washer is 5 m.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering and Intelligent Materials (ICMEIM 2017)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
February 2017
ISBN
10.2991/icmeim-17.2017.108
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/icmeim-17.2017.108How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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