The effect faults like surface wear, crack tooth, chipped tooth and missing tooth can be demonstrated on either spur gears or helical gears. Rolling element bearing faults like inner race, outer race, ball damage can also be incorporated. Adjustable clearance to study backlash is possible: increasing the amount of backlash is without major consequence (other than increased noise and rotational play), and reducing backlash can result in binding and/or excessive operating temperatures. Drivetrain misalignment can also be introduced intentionally in the DDS. Any of these faults can be added to the drivetrain one at a time, or simultaneously to study fault interactions. Both torsional and radial loadings can be applied to study damage signature or propagation in gears and/or bearings: the torsional load is applied via a 3 HP variable frequency AC drive with a programmable, user-defined speed profiles; and the radial load is applied to a shaft in the parallel gearbox. With the programmable magnetic brake, rapid load fluctuation can be applied to simulate real life loading conditions.
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Drivetrain Diagnostics Simulator
SpectraQuest’s Drivetrain Diagnostics Simulator (DDS) has been specifically designed to simulate industrial drivetrains for experimental and educational purposes. The drivetrain consists of a 2 stage planetary gearbox, a 2 stage parallel shaft gearbox with rolling or sleeve bearings, a bearing loader, and a programmable magnetic brake. All elements of the DDS have been designed to maximize the number of drivetrain configurations to investigate gearbox dynamics and acoustic behavior, health monitoring, vibration based diagnostic techniques, lubricant conditioning or wear particle analysis. It is robust enough to handle heady loads and spacious enough for easy gear placement, setup, and installation of monitoring devices. The two-stage parallel shaft gearbox can be configured as to reduce or increase the gear ratio. The planetary gear train, sun, planet and ring gears, the carrier, and bearings are all easily accessible.
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- 2-stage planetary gearbox and 2-stage oil-lubricated parallel shaft gearbox.
- Gears can slide along the shafts to alter system stiffness and make room for additional devices.
- Adaptable to spur or helical gears.
- Intentionally damaged or worn gearing can be fitted to study the effects on vibration signature.
- Choice of rolling element bearing or sleeve bearings.
- Alterable backlash by replacing bearing mounting hubs to provide the desired clearance.
- Modular design makes the introduction of faulted bearing and/or faulted gears an easy task.
- Multiple mounting locations provided for installation of various transducers.
- Develop diagnosis techniques and advanced signal processing methods.
- Torsional and radial variable speed loading.
- PC controlled magnetic brake connected directly to output shaft to provide loading.
- Additional devices may be mounted instead of the brake.
The DDS design enables changing gearbox and bearing components quickly and easily. The unit is adaptable to install either rolling element bearings or oil-impregnated sleeve bearings with either spur or helical gears. The modular design makes the introduction of faulted bearing and/or faulted gears an easy task. Multiple mounting locations are provided for installation of transducers. The motor, gearboxes, brake are mounted on a half inch aluminum plate with stiffeners and vibration isolators to minimize environmental vibration.
The drivetrain is designed to accommodate different types of sensors easily. Accelerometers can be installed on the gearboxes and on the bearing housing to measure the vibrations in all three directions. A torque meter enables precise load measurement. The input and output shafts can be fitted with encoder or tachometer to measure the transmission error or for time synchronize averaging. Other transducers can also be installed per customers’ request. Data acquisition hardware and software are also available from Spectra Quest and ready to do time domain and frequency domain signal analysis.