The invention relates to a quantitative calculation method for the
meshing stiffness of a gear with a minor defect. In order to describe the influence of a typical gear fault on the time-varying stiffness characteristic, a
meshing stiffness energy method calculation model is firstly introduced, wherein five kinds of elastic
strain energy, which refers to bending, shearing,
radial compression, contact and base deformation, are respectively considered, and five corresponding stiffnesses are further formed. The quantitative calculation method is based on the
energy method, the influences of case crush,
tooth root crack and tooth breakage on the stiffness distribution are discussed one after another. Aiming at spalling defects, the influences of spalling length (in the meshing direction) and spalling width (in the tooth width direction) on a stiffness distribution curve is researched, and the quantitative relationship between the spalling size and the stiffnesses degradation is obtained. In the aspect of
flexural fatigue crack, the change rule of the stiffness curve along with the crack depth, and the quantitative relationship between the stiffness curve and the crack depth are discussed. In the aspect of broken
gear tooth, the influence of missing of a
single tooth on the stiffness distribution is discussed. By adopting the quantitative calculation method, the actual meshing situation can be really reflected, the complexity and computation in the process of solving can be lowered.