A SYSTEMATIC-APPROACH TO POWER-FLOW AND STATIC-FORCE ANALYSIS IN EPICYCLIC SPUR-GEAR TRAINS

It is well known that the circulating power in gear trains can be many times greater than the input power. Such circumstances require that i n the design of split-power gear drives, a preliminary power-flow anal ysis be carried out. In this investigation a systematic method for the power-flow and static-force analysis of spur-gear drives is presented . The manner in which the procedure is applied has some similarities w ith an algorithm for kinematic analysis previously suggested by one of the authors. Following a brief review of previous work, the theoretic al bases of the new methodology of analysis are discussed and numerica l examples developed.