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Publication date: 8 January 2018

Ye Zhou, Caichao Zhu, Huaiju Liu, Chaosheng Song and Zufeng Li

Coatings are widely used in gears to keep interface from wearing excessively. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of coating properties and working conditions on the…

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Abstract

Purpose

Coatings are widely used in gears to keep interface from wearing excessively. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of coating properties and working conditions on the pressure, the shear traction, stresses as well as the fatigue life of spur gear.

Design/methodology/approach

A numerical contact fatigue life model of a coated spur gear pair under elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) is developed based on the characteristics of gear geometry and kinematics, lubrication conditions and material properties. Frequency response functions and the discrete convolute and fast Fourier transform (DC-FFT) algorithm are applied to obtain elastic deformation and stress. Mutil-axial fatigue criteria are used to evaluate the contact fatigue life based upon the predicted time-varying stress fields of coated bodies.

Findings

The maximum Mises stress decreases while the fatigue life increases as the coating modulus decreases. A thinner coating leads to a longer life and a smaller maximum Mises stress for hard coatings. The load has more significant effect on the contact fatigue life of soft coatings.

Originality/value

The developed model can be used to evaluate the contact fatigue life of coated gear under EHL and help designers analyze the effect of coating elastic modulus and thickness on the contact pressure, film thickness and stress.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 70 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Publication date: 7 March 2018

Natasha Ramluckun and Vandana Bassoo

With the increasing acclaim of Wireless Sensor Networks and its diverse applications, research has been directed into optimising and prolonging the network lifetime. Energy…

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With the increasing acclaim of Wireless Sensor Networks and its diverse applications, research has been directed into optimising and prolonging the network lifetime. Energy efficiency has been a critical factor due to the energy resource impediment of batteries in sensor nodes. The proposed routing algorithm therefore aims at extending lifetime of sensors by enhancing load distribution in the network. The scheme is based on the chain-based routing technique of the PEGASIS (Power Energy GAthering in Sensor Information Systems) protocol and uses Ant Colony Optimisation to obtain the optimal chain. The contribution of the proposed work is the integration of the clustering method to PEGASIS with Ant Colony Optimisation to reduce redundancy of data, neighbour nodes distance and transmission delay associated with long links, and the employment an appropriate cluster head selection method. Simulation results indicates proposed method’s superiority in terms of residual energy along with considerable improvement regarding network lifetime, and significant reduction in delay when compared with existing PEGASIS protocol and optimised PEG-ACO chain respectively.

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Applied Computing and Informatics, vol. 16 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2634-1964

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