An Integrated Prognostics Method for Failure Time Prediction of Gears Subject to the Surface Wear Failure Mode

• Published in: IEEE transactions on reliability Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 316 - 327
• Main Authors: Zhao, Fuqiong, Tian, Zhigang, Liang, Xihui, Xie, Mingjiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2018; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Bayesian analysis; Coefficients; Condition monitoring; Contact pressure; Crack propagation; experimental validation; Failure modes; Fatigue cracking; Fatigue failure; Finite element method; Fracture mechanics; gear; Gear trains; Gears; Inspection; integrated prognostics; Load modeling; Mathematical model; physics based; Predictive models; Sliding; Sliding contact; Surface cracks; Surface treatment; surface wear; Wear

Surface wear is one of the main failure modes that gears suffer from due to the sliding contact in the mesh process. However, the existing gear prognostics methods mainly focused on the fatigue cracking failure mode and the existing prediction methods considering surface wear are physics based witho...