Effect of modification coefficient on nonlinear dynamic characteristics of planetary drive with small teeth number difference

Li, Hongtao; Niu, Wentie; Zhang, Dawei; Tian, Yanling; Fu, Shengli

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Effect of modification coefficient on nonlinear dynamic characteristics of planetary drive with small teeth number difference

Hongtao Li¹

Wentie Niu²

Dawei Zhang³

Yanling Tian⁴

Shengli Fu⁵

^{1, 2, 3, 4}Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

⁵CNPC Bohai Drilling Engineering Company Limited, Tianjin, China

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Wentie Niu

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Abstract

Planetary Drive with Small Teeth Number Difference (PDSTND) is widely utilized in industry for its advantages including large transmission ratio, huge torque and high efficiency. However, interference can easily occur due to the small teeth number difference between annulus and planetary gear, which can be solved by modification. Besides, noise and vibration are still the remained problems to influence its working performance. In order to discover the interaction of modification coefficient and vibration, a nonlinear dynamic model is established by using Lagrange equation and solved by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. Modification coefficient, backlash and transmission error are used as the control parameters to investigate their effects on the dynamic characteristics of the system, by means of bifurcation diagrams, Poincaré maps, trajectories and frequency spectrums. The results show that the system turns into quasi-periodic motion, and then alternates between period- $n$ ( $n =$ 5, 6) and chaotic motion as modification coefficient increases. Moreover, the responses of backlash and transmission error to the system get more complex with increasing modification coefficient. The results can provide new theoretical basis for the design, manufacture and fault diagnosis of PDSTND.

1. Introduction

Planetary Drive with Small Teeth Number Difference (PDSTND) is widely applied in industry for its advantages including large transmission ratio, huge torque, small size and high efficiency. However, interference can easily occur because of the small teeth number difference between annulus and planetary gear, which will lead to the failure of PDSTND and can be solved by modification. Besides, the noise and vibration are still the remained problems, which not only deteriorate the working condition but also reduce the reliability and durability of machine systems. Therefore, it is necessary to study modification methodology and dynamic characteristics of PDSTND for prolonging lifetime and improving efficiency.

In the early 20^th century, different modification methods and laws were developed to solve interference, the proposal of “closed graph” method represented the maturity of modification methodology until the 1950s [1]. Subsequently, the problem of the distribution of the sum of profile shift coefficients on each cylindrical gear was treated and recommended especially in standards for gearing optimization [2, 3], which were compared and discussed by Mirică [4].

In order to prolong life and reduce power loss, more relevant studies on gears mainly focused on both good tooth load capacity and efficiency. In early studies, the analyses and load calculation of PDSTND obeyed the ISO standards approximately [5-7]. Afterwards, Chen and Walton [8] studied optimum design of PDSTND. Shu [9] and Zhou [10] conducted studies on determination of load-sharing factor of PDSTND. Li [11] presented an effective method to solve contact analysis and calculate the loads distributed on teeth, pins and rollers. Besides, various methods had been presented to evaluate the local friction coefficient and efficiency [12-14], and these methods were compared incorporating modification coefficient by Baglioni [15].

Recently, a variety of mathematical models had been developed to investigate gear noise and vibration [16, 17]. With further research for the dynamic characteristics of PDSTND, more parameters were taken into consideration in the analysis of PDSTND. Time-varying stiffness, transmission error and backlash were analyzed as parametric excitation to study the effect of each to gearing system in [18-20]. Lumped parameter models were used to predict the free and forced vibration characteristics of the planetary gear sets [21-23], and finite element models were applied for complex analysis of the effects of design parameters on dynamic response [24, 25].

It is obvious that the previous studies on modification and dynamics are irrelevant. This present work aims to discover the interaction between modification coefficient and dynamics incorporating backlash and transmission error. A nonlinear dynamic model is proposed by using Lagrange equation and solved by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. Modification coefficient, backlash and transmission error are used as the control parameters to investigate their effects on the system, by means of bifurcation diagrams, Poincaré maps, trajectories and frequency spectrums.

2. Dynamic model of system

2.1. Nonlinear model

The object studied in this paper is the well-known KHV PDSTND used widely in industry, and the schematic diagram is shown in Fig. 1 [8], which consists of drive $D$ , carrier $H$ , annulus $K$ , planetary gear $V$ and load $L$ . Annulus $K$ is fixed on the housing, and other components are mounted on the flexible shafts supported by bearings.

In order to establish the dynamic model of the KHV shown in Fig. 1 efficiently, some assumptions are proposed as follows:

a) The stiffness of the supporting bearings for each rotating part is large enough to neglect the transverse displacement of each part, and only torsional displacement is considered.

b) Annulus $K$ is fixed on the housing; all displacements of annulus $K$ are not included.

c) The effect of friction caused by moving bearings is not taken into account.

d) The equal angular velocity mechanism in KHV is regarded as a flexible shaft with stiffness and damping.

Based on the above assumptions, the 4-DOF nonlinear dynamic model is established as shown in Fig. 2, and corresponding DOFs are rotations of drive $D$ , carrier $H$ , planetary gear $V$ and load $L$ .

Fig. 1The schematic diagram of the KHV

Fig. 2The dynamic model of the KHV

The angular displacement of each part is $θ_{D}$ , $θ_{H}$ , $θ_{V}$ and $θ_{L}$ respectively, meanwhile, the equivalent transverse displacements in the pressure line direction caused by rotational displacements are introduced to simplify the mathmatical model:

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X_{D} = θ_{D} r_{b H}, X_{H} = θ_{H} r_{b H}, X_{V} = θ_{V} r_{b V}, X_{L} = θ_{L} r_{b V} .

The following effects are calculated in the mathmatical model: inertia of drive $D$ , torsional stiffness and damping of input drive shaft, inertia of carrier $H$ , inertia of planetary gear $V$ , time-varying meshing stiffness and damping of the meshing teeth between annulus $K$ and planetary gear $V$ , torsional stiffness and damping of output drive shaft, inertia of load $L$ , backlash, transmission error, drive and load torque. The dynamic mathematical model can be derived by using Lagrange equation as follows:

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\{\begin{array}{l} M_{D} {\ddot{X}}_{D} + c_{D H} ({\dot{X}}_{D} - {\dot{X}}_{H}) + k_{D H} (X_{D} - X_{H}) = P_{D}, \\ M_{H} {\ddot{X}}_{H} - c_{D H} ({\dot{X}}_{D} - {\dot{X}}_{H}) - k_{D H} (X_{D} - X_{H}) - k_{m} f (X_{V} - X_{H} - e (t), b) - c_{m} ({\dot{X}}_{V} - {\dot{X}}_{H} - \dot{e} (t)) = 0, \\ M_{V} {\ddot{X}}_{V} + c_{V L} ({\dot{X}}_{V} - {\dot{X}}_{L}) + k_{V L} (X_{V} - X_{L}) + k_{m} f (X_{V} - X_{H} - e (t), b) + c_{m} ({\dot{X}}_{V} - {\dot{X}}_{H} - \dot{e} (t)) = 0, \\ M_{L} {\ddot{X}}_{L} - c_{V L} ({\dot{X}}_{V} - {\dot{X}}_{L}) - k_{V L} (X_{V} - X_{L}) = - P_{L}, \end{array}

where: $M_{D} = \frac{I_{D}}{r_{b H}^{2}}, M_{H} = (I_{H} + \frac{m_{V} r_{b H}^{2}}{{c o s}^{2} α}) / R_{b H}^{2}, M_{V} = I_{V} / R_{b V}^{2}, M_{L} = I_{L} / R_{b V}^{2}, P_{D} = T_{D} / r_{b H},$

$P_{L} = T_{L} / r_{b V},$

$f$ : the backlash function which will be given in section 3.4,

$e (t)$ : the transmission error which will be given in section 3.5.

Due to the linear and nonlinear resilience in the system, the equation can not be solved by analytic solution. Therefore, relative displacements in the direction of pressure line are defined as follows:

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\{\begin{array}{l} X_{D H} = X_{D} - X_{H}, \\ X_{V L} = X_{V} - X_{L}, \\ X_{V H} = X_{V} - X_{H} - e (t) . \end{array}

Therefore, the set of simplified governing equations is obtained:

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\{\begin{array}{l} M_{D H} {\ddot{X}}_{D H} + c_{D H} {\dot{X}}_{D H} + k_{D H} X_{D H} + \frac{M_{D H}}{M_{H}} c_{m} ({\dot{X}}_{V H} - \dot{e} (t)) + \frac{M_{D H}}{M_{H}} k_{m} f (X_{V H}, b) = \frac{M_{D H}}{M_{D}} P_{D}, \\ M_{r d} {\ddot{X}}_{V H} + \frac{M_{V H}}{M_{V}} c_{V L} {\dot{X}}_{V L} + \frac{M_{V H}}{M_{H}} c_{D H} {\dot{X}}_{D H} + \frac{M_{V H}}{M_{V}} k_{V L} X_{V L} + \frac{M_{V H}}{M_{H}} k_{D H} X_{D H} + c_{m} {\dot{X}}_{V H} + k_{m} f (X_{V H}, b) = - M_{V H} \ddot{e} (t), \\ M_{V L} {\ddot{X}}_{V L} + c_{V L} {\dot{X}}_{V L} + k_{V L} X_{V L} + \frac{M_{V L}}{M_{V}} c_{m} ({\dot{X}}_{V H} - \dot{e} (t)) + \frac{M_{V L}}{M_{V}} k_{m} f (X_{V H}, b) = \frac{M_{V L}}{M_{L}} P_{L}, \end{array}

where $M_{D H} = \frac{M_{D} M_{H}}{M_{D} + M_{H}},$ $M_{V H} = \frac{M_{V} M_{H}}{M_{V} + M_{H}},$ $M_{V L} = \frac{M_{V} M_{L}}{M_{V} + M_{L}} .$

If a displacement vector $X$ is introduced:

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X = {X_{D H}, X_{V H}, {X_{V L}}}^{T} .

the Eq. (4) can be given in the matrix form as:

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M \ddot{X} + C \dot{X} + K (t) f (X, b) = P (t),

where $M$ is the mass matrix, $C$ is the damping matrix, $K$ is the sitffness matrix, $f (X, b)$ is the vector expression of the backlash nonlinearity in section 3.4 and $P (t)$ is the vector expression of excitation.

2.2. Modification coefficient

In order to analyse the dynamic characteristics of the KHV, the structural parameters of the KHV are given in Table 1.

Table 1Structural parameters of the KHV

Parameters	Teeth number	Module (mm)	ha*	Facewidth (mm)
$V$	30	3.5	0.8	20
$K$	33	3.5	0.8	20

The closed graph of the system in Fig. 2 can be obtained and plotted in Fig. 3 based on the method in [26].

The lines in Fig. 3 are defined as follows: Line 1: limited line with $ε =$ 1; line 2: restrict line with no teeth profile interference; line 3: limited line with no shortcut of the gear; line 4: restrict line with equal meshing angle.

The points located on line 4 and in the region encompassed by the lines 1-3 are qualified for modification coefficient. $M$ (0.416, 0.601) and $N$ (0.835, 0.995) are two limited points. In order to simplify calculation, $x_{1}$ will take place of the coordinate pair $(x_{1}, x_{2})$ in the following discussion.

Fig. 3Closed graph

2.3. Calculation of mesh stiffness

A method has been proposed for the meshing stiffness calculation of a spur gear pair [27], in which parabola is applied to fit the stiffness variation with time. The stiffness change for a single-tooth engagement is shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 4Stiffness for a single-tooth engagement

The stiffness of meshing point is 1.67 times as large as that of engaging-in point for inner gearing. The stiffness of engaging-in point $A$ , pitch point $C$ and meshing point $B$ are $k_{A}$ , $k_{C}$ and $k_{B}$ respectively, and $k_{Α} = k_{Β} = k',$ $k_{C} = 1.5 k' .$

According to the ISO Standard [28], when $α = 20^{\circ},$ $x_{1} \geq x_{2},$ $- 0.5 \leq x_{1} + x_{2} \leq 2,$ where $α$ is the pressure angle, $x_{1}$ and $x_{2}$ are the gear and annulus modification coefficient respectively, the meshing stiffness in pitch point can be calculated by the following equation:

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k_{C} = 0.8 \times 10^{3} B / q (N/mm),

where $B$ is the teeth facewidth.

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q = 0.04732 + \frac{0.15551}{z_{v 1}} + \frac{0.25791}{z_{v 2}} - 0.00635 x_{1} - \frac{0.11654 x_{1}}{z_{v 1}} \pm 0.00193 x_{2} \pm \frac{0.24188 x_{2}}{z_{v 2}} + 0.00529 x_{1}^{2} + 0.00182 x_{2}^{2},

where “+”is used for inner gearing, “–”is used for external gearing, $z_{v 1}$ and $z_{v 2}$ are the quivalent teeth numbers.

The meshing stiffness expression is deduced by $A$ , $B$ , $C$ as follows:

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k (t) = \{\begin{array}{l} A t^{2} + B t + C, & t \in [0, ε - 1], \\ 2 A t^{2} + 2 (A + B) t + (A + B + 2 C), & t \in [ε - 1, 1], \end{array}

where $A = - 2 k' / ε^{2}, B = 2 k' / ε, C = k' .$

The average meshing stiffness can be derived by integration:

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\bar{k} = 0.866268 ε k_{C} .

The time-varying meshing stiffness of the KHV for different $x_{1}$ is shown in Fig. 5.

Fig. 5The time-varying meshing stiffness of the KHV for different modification coefficient (: x1= 0.416, : x1= 0.626, : x1= 0.835)

2.4. Backlash

The backlash is inevitable in gear engagement due to the purpose for lubrication, machining error and wear at work. Under the condition of high speed and light load or frequent starting, the exsit of backlash will influence the contact condition. Meanwhile, the teeth will contact and separate repeatedly, which produces great impact on the dynamic characteristics of the system.

The backlash nonlinearity can be expressed by a piecewise function as illustrated in Fig. 6. $f (X)$ is nonlinear function of $X$ , and is calculated by Eq. (11) [29]:

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f (X) = \{\begin{array}{l} X - b, & X > b, \\ 0, & | X | \leq b, \\ X + b, & - b, \end{array}

where $b$ is half of the backlash between the meshing teeth.

Fig. 6Backlash nonlinearity

2.5. Transmission error

Gear transmission error excitation, which is essentially a type of displacement excitation, results from a combination of the gear machining and installation errors, uncoaxiality and gear teeth elastic deformation. Due to gear transmission error, oscillation will occur. The transmission error is set as a sine period function [30]:

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e (t) = e s i n (ω_{m} t + ϕ),

where $e$ is the transmission error amplitude, $ω_{m}$ is the meshing frequency and $ϕ$ is the meshing phase.

2.6. Dimensionless dynamic equation

Rigid displacement, linear and nonlinear resilience are included in Eq. (6). Meanwhile, due to the huge difference among the orders of magnitude of each coefficient, it is difficult to solve the equation by analytical solution. Therefore, dimensionless dynamic equation should be deduced by proper transformation.

Propose $ω_{n} = \sqrt{{\bar{k}}_{m} / M_{v h}},$ where ${\bar{k}}_{m}$ is the average meshing stiffness.

Meanwhile, a displacement scale $b_{c} =$ 1 μm and redefined dimensionless time $τ = t ω_{n}$ are introduced, other variables can be deduced as:

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\bar{X} = X / b_{c}, \bar{M} = I, {\bar{c}}_{i j} = c_{i j} / (M_{i i} ω_{n}), {\bar{k}}_{i j} = k_{i j} / (M_{i i} ω_{n}^{2}), {\bar{P}}_{i} (t) = P_{i} (t) / (M_{i i} b_{c} ω_{n}^{2}),

{\bar{e}}_{V H} = e_{V H} / b_{c}, \bar{b} = b / b_{c}, \bar{ω} = ω / ω_{n} .

The backlash function in Eq. (11) can be transformed as:

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f (\bar{X}) = \{\begin{array}{l} \bar{X} - \bar{b}, & \bar{X} > \bar{b}, \\ 0, & | \bar{X} | \leq \bar{b}, \\ \bar{X} + \bar{b}, & - \bar{b} . \end{array}

The transmission error function in Eq. (12) also can be transformed as:

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\bar{e} (τ) = {\bar{e}}_{V H} s i n (\bar{ω} τ + ϕ) .

The dimensionless dynamic equation can be derived by substituting Eqs. (13-15) into Eq. (6):

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\bar{M} \ddot{\bar{X}} + \bar{C} \dot{\bar{X}} + \bar{K} (τ) f (\bar{X}, \bar{b}) = \bar{P} (τ) .

3. Simulation results and discussion

Due to the strong nonlinear characteristics of the dynamic model involving backlash and transmission error, established in section 3, the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method, ODE45, is adopted for the integration of sets of differential equations. The former 500 periods are discarded, and the last 100 periods are remained for analysis to eliminate the effect of free vibration. Modification coefficient, backlash and transmission error are used as the control parameters to investigate their effects on the system, by means of bifurcation diagrams, Poincaré maps, trajectories and frequency spectrums. System parameters of the KHV are given in Table 2.

Table 2System parameters of the KHV

$I_{D}$ (kg·m²)	$I_{K}$ (kg·m²)	$I_{V}$ (kg·m²)	$I_{L}$ (kg·m²)	$ζ$	$η$	$T_{D}$ (N·m)	$T_{L}$ (N·m)
0.03	0.15	0.2175	0.03	0.1	0.005	50	50

3.1. The effect of modification coefficient

The change of modification coefficient can lead to the change of meshing stiffness which influences dynamic characteristics of the system [27]. Therefore, the study of effect of modification coefficient on the dynamic characteristics is beneficial to improve the dynamic characteristics of the system in design stage.

Fig. 7 shows the bifurcation diagram of system using modification coefficient as the control parameter from $x_{1} =$ 0.416 to 0.835 while $b =$ 2, $e =$ 5. It can be seen that when $x_{1}$ is located at the range from 0.416 to 0.565, the motion is synchronous, and only one isolated point is correspondingly shown in Poincaré map for $x_{1} =$ 0.5, as illustrated in Fig. 8a.With the increase in $x_{1}$ , the response of system comes into quasi-periodic motion ranging from 0.565 to 0.568. Fig. 8b shows the trajectory, Poincaré map and frequency spectrum for $x_{1} =$ 0.565; There are few points limited in certain region in the Poincaré map, closed curves with certain width in the trajectory and continuous bands with 1 peak, 1×, in frequency spectrum. When $x_{1}$ varies at the interval of [0.568, 0.593], the motion becomes a sub-synchronous vibration with period-five, which can be proved by the five closed curves in the trajectory, five points in the Poincaré map and five peaks, 0.48×, 0.57×, 0.8099×, 1×, 1.2×, in the frequency spectrum for $x_{1} =$ 0.585 as shown in Fig. 8c. When $x_{1}$ is larger than 0.593, irregular trajectory, discrete points in the Poincaré map as well as the continuous, broad band in frequency spectrum are shown in Fig. 8d for $x_{1} =$ 0.63. All of these results prove that the system motion is chaotic. As $x_{1}$ increases, the system response leaves chaotic motion and turns into period-six motion. The trajectory, Poincaré map and frequency spectrum for $x_{1} =$ 0.761 illustrated in Fig. 8e convey information in accordance with that in Fig. 7. However, when $x_{1}$ exceeds 0.768, the points of the attractor in Poincaré map gradually increase, the curves in the trajectory become wined and irregular, continuous and broad band appears in frequency spectrum as shown in Fig. 8f for $x_{1} =$ 0.8, which means that the system comes into chaotic again.

Fig. 7The bifurcation diagram of x1 on the response of system

What have been depicted in Figs. 7-8 demonstrate that modification coefficient has great influence on the dynamic behavior of system. When modification coefficient is small, the response of system is period-one motion and the amplitude decreases as modification coefficient increases. Afterwards, the system turns into quasi-periodic motion and alternates between period- $n$ ( $n =$ 5, 6) and chaotic motion, and it can be explained that when the modification coefficient increases, the meshing stiffness becomes small, shock resistance becomes weak, and then the system motion gets more complex.

Fig. 8Poincaré maps, trajectories and frequency spectrums of system at different x1

a) $x_{1} =$ 0.5

b) $x_{1} =$ 0.565

c) $x_{1} =$ 0.585

d) $x_{1} =$ 0.63

e) $x_{1} =$ 0.761

f) $x_{1} =$ 0.8

3.2. The effect of backlash with different modification coefficient

Backlash is inevitable in gear meshing for the purpose of lubrication, machining and assembly errors. The effect of backlash on the dynamic characteristics of the system has been analyzed [31]. However, it is significant to analyze the dynamic characteristics of the system with different modification coefficient, by using the backlash as the control parameter.

The bifurcation diagrams in Fig. 9 show how different $x_{1}$ influences the effect of backlash on the system at the interval of [0, 2.2] when $e =$ 5. Regular trajectory, isolate point in the Poincaré map and single peak in frequency spectrum for $b =$ 0.5 and $x_{1} =$ 0.5 illustrated in Fig. 10a show that the response of the system is period-one motion, which coincides with that in Fig. 9a. However, for the same $b =$ 0.5, the response becomes quasi-periodic motion for $x_{1} =$ 0.761 as shown in Fig. 9b and Fig. 10b and chaotic motion for $x_{1} =$ 0.83 as shown in Fig. 9c and Fig. 10c, which indicates modification coefficient has significant effects on the response.

Fig. 9The bifurcation diagram of b on the response of system at different x1

a) $x_{1} =$ 0.5

b) $x_{1} =$ 0.761

c) $x_{1} =$ 0.83

Fig. 10Poincaré maps and trajectories of system at different x1

a) $x_{1} =$ 0.5

b) $x_{1} =$ 0.761

c) $x_{1} =$ 0.83

According to the above analysis, the response turns into chaotic motion from period-one motion gradually as backlash increases, which is in accord with the results in literature [30], the reasonable explanation is that single contact becomes double contacts with increasing $b$ , and the system motion gets more complex. Furthermore, small variation of modification coefficient can result in large change of response, which can be attributed to the combined effect of stiffness and backlash changes caused by the variation of modification coefficient.

3.3. The effect of transmission error with different modification coefficient

The actual line of action will deviate from the theoretical engagement position due to machining error, assembly mistakes and gear teeth deformation, which also leads to variation in instantaneous transmission ratio and undesirable impact between the meshing teeth [31]. Therefore, it is valuable to analyze the dynamic characteristics of the system with different modification coefficient, by using transmission error as the control parameter.

Fig. 11 shows the bifurcation diagram of e on the response of system under different $x_{1}$ at the interval of [0, 5.5]. It can be seen that the response is synchronous motion with period-one at $e =$ 4.55 and $x_{1} =$ 0.5 illustrated in Fig. 11a and Fig. 12a. However, the curves in the trajectory become irregular and the points of the attractor in Poincaré map gradually increase for the same $e$ as $x_{1}$ increases, which indicates that the system becomes quasi-periodic motion and chaotic motion from synchronous motion as shown in Figs. 11-12.

Fig. 11The bifurcation diagram of e on the response of system at different x1

a) $x_{1} =$ 0.5

b) $x_{1} =$ 0.63

c) $x_{1} =$ 0.83

Fig. 12Poincaré maps and trajectories of system at e= 4.55 at different x1

a) $x_{1} =$ 0.5

b) $x_{1} =$ 0.63

c) $x_{1} =$ 0.83

The above comparison demonstrates that the response of $e$ to the system becomes chaotic motion through synchronous motion and quasi-periodic motion as $e$ increases. Meanwhile, the scope of synchronous motion becomes narrower as $x_{1}$ increases. All results show that modification coefficient makes great effect on the response of $e$ to the system.

4. Conclusions

The nonlinear dynamic model is proposed by using Lagrange principle and solved by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. Modification coefficient, backlash and transmission error are used as the control parameters to investigate their effects on the system, by means of bifurcation diagrams, Poincaré maps, trajectories and frequency spectrums. The following conclusions can be summarized from the present study:

1) Modification coefficient makes great effect on the dynamic characteristics of PDSTND. When the modification coefficient is small, the response is steady state with period-one and the vibration amplitude decreases as the modification coefficient increases. Afterwards, the system turns into quasi-periodic motion and alternates between period- $n$ ( $n =$ 5, 6) and chaotic motion, which can be explained as that when the modification coefficient increases, the meshing stiffness becomes small and shock resistance becomes weak, then the system motion gets more complex.

2) Small variation of modification coefficient can result in large change of the response of backlash to system from period motion to chaotic motion, which can be attributed to the combined effect of the stiffness and backlash change caused by the variation of modification coefficient.

3) Modification coefficient influences the response of transmission error to the system. Meanwhile, the scope of synchronous motion becomes narrower with increasing modification coefficient.

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About this article

Received

30 August 2013

Accepted

05 October 2013

Published

15 February 2014

Keywords

modification coefficient

PDSTND

dynamic characteristics

noise and vibration

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Key Technologies R&D Program of Tianjin (Grant No. 11ZCKFGX03500).

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