Marius Willecke, M. Sc. studied Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University 2019, graduating with distinctions. Since 2019, he has served as a research assistant at WZL of RWTH Aachen University. His primary interests include end-of-line testing development of tooth contact simulation software and simulation of the acoustic behavior of gearboxes.
Tooth contact analysis is an integral part of the gear design process. With the help of these simulation tools, it is possible to calculate the excitation caused by a tooth contact (Ref. 1). Usually, the load-free transmission error or the total transmission error under load is used for this purpose. However, the calculation with the tooth contact analysis ZAKO3D allows only a quasi-static consideration of the excitation. To better evaluate the behavior in the overall system, it is therefore necessary to perform a dynamics simulation. However, the main disadvantage of such dynamics simulations is the much longer computing time compared to quasi-static tooth contact analyses due to the high computational effort.