An approach to calculate radiation noise of gear system

A rigid-flexible coupling multi-body dynamic model which contains the structure system and transmission system of gear device is developed taking account of the internal excitations such as the time-varying mesh stiffness, tooth backlash and bearing stiffness and the external torque and speed excitation. Then the dynamic meshing forces of gear pairs and bearing reaction forces are calculated based on the dynamic theory of multi-body system. Afterwards, a vibro-acoustic coupling model of the gear system is established by taking the frequency histories of bearing reaction forces as the boundary conditions, and then the surface sound pressure of gearbox and the radiation noise of outer sound field are calculated. In fact, the proposed model would provide a quicker approach to analyze the radiation noise of the gear system during the design phase. Finally, the radiation noise experimental study is performed on the experimental prototype to verify the rationality of the analysis. The comparison analysis shows that computational results are in good agreement with the data of experiment test