Ratings of various gear design approaches and a translation technique for spiral bevel gear design

In this thesis, spiral bevel gear design under bending fatigue stress has been designed according to various national and international standards and machine element textbooks. Numerical analysis was performed using the analytical results (module(m) and face width(F)) obtained from the design made for each approach. Numerical analysis was done using Ansys software. The dimensionless gear rating numbers (GRi) is obtained for each approach and then the derived correlation equations are used to generate the dimensionless conversion factors (CFs). CFs allow designers and engineering students to easily conversion from one approach to ANSI/AGMA Standard. In addition, it allows the designer to optimization of gear tooth volume using GRi values.