Contact Stress Analysis of Spur Gears using Experimental Stress Analysis

Objective : To determine and validate contact stresses in spur gears resulting in tooth wear

Activities :

• Designed mathematical and CAD models of spur gears in PTC Creo

• Optimized meshing parameters with proper boundary conditions in ANSYS

• Perform FEA analysis to find out contact stresses

• Manufactured gear & pinion specimen in epoxy material using Waterjet cutting method

• Carried out photoelastic experiment & analyzed stresses

• Validated results between FEA and experimental analysis