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Abstract— The goal of the project was to build an used since antiquity to measure distances, transfer
indexing head of a milling machine which would length from one drawing to another, and draw circles.
provide versatility and add a function to the machining
capabilities of the milling machine. To design the system Proceeding section presents relevant literature that has
and all parts separately using the design tools stick as been reviewed in order to establish a theoretical
solid works and auto cad and analysis with different foundation for the study. An introduction to gear
materials by software's such as ansys to ensured high design, bearing design and shaft design with a focus
precision in the indexing processed to reduce the failure on the nomenclature and the general equations that are
risk. The basic purpose of the indexing head is to used for design these peripheries is presented.
achieving the correct angular divisions. The purpose of
our project is to minimize the cost as well as the weight R.G. Desavale and V.G. Salunkhe in 2015 [1] worked
of the device, making the indexing operation easy to on Damage Detection of Roller Bearing System Using
understand. We will work on worm and worm wheel of
Experimental Data. They used the study of vibration
the highest quality to give us a final gearing ratio 1:40
meaning forty revolutions of the crank handle will response of roller bearings by using mathematical
result in one complete revolution of the chuck. The basic model.
parts of the dividing head are the casing, worm and
worm wheel and the shaft used to transmit power. Each DENG Xingqiao, WANG Jueling, WANG Jinge,
part will be fabricated after passing through rigorous CHEN Shouan and YANG Jie in 2015 [2] worked on
testing and quality control to prove the longevity of the a novel specific type of worm drive, so-called end face
indexing head. engagement worm gear (EFEWD). It is originally
presented to minimize or overcome the gear backlash.
Index Terms— Indexing Head, Milling Machine, Gear Different factors including contact curves, tooth
Design, Analysis. profile, lubrication angle and the induced normal
curvature are taken into account to investigate the
I. INTRODUCTION meshing characteristics and create the profile of a
Milling is the machining process of using rotary novel specific type of worm drive through
cutters to remove material from a work piece by mathematical models and theoretical analysis.
advancing (or feeding) in a direction at an angle with
the axis of the tool. It covers a wide variety of different M. Estremsa , M. Arizmendia, W. E. Cumbicusa, A.
operations and machines, on scales from small Lópeza in 2015 [3] worked on measuring the clamping
individual parts to large, heavy-duty gang milling forces on cylindrical work pieces. ALI Reza
operations. It is one of the most commonly used Nezamabadi, EHSAN Soury and ARASH Houshmand
processes in industry and machine shops today for in 2014 [4] investigated on the performance of worm
machining parts to precise sizes and shapes. One of the gears influenced by the position of the contact pattern.
most important attachments for milling machine is Investigation shows that by decrease in size of the
indexing head. These are used to divide circumference contact pattern area the lubricant film thickness
of work piece into equally spaced divisions when between worm and worm wheel teeth will be
milling gear teeth, squares, hexagons, and octagons. decreased and lubricant temperature as a criterion for
They can be right or left handed depending on which worm gears performance will be increased.
end you have it assembled. Also used to rotate work
piece at predetermined ratio to table feed rate. Dividers A. Chasalevris, Fadi Dohnal and Ioannis Chatzisavvas
and compasses are drawing instruments that have been in 2014 [5] designed and investigated an experimental
roller bearing system with an elastic rotor mounted in
worn journal bearings. They operated the system at
run-up and run-down conditions and the response is
analyzed with emphasis on passage through the first
critical speed. Wear in one journal bearing is
artificially produced and two cases of wear depth are A. Worm and worm gear design
investigated, one of 20% of bearing radial clearance
Indexing head worm gear set is designed for
and one of 40%.
indexing head using initial conditions selected on
A. Chasalevris and D. Sfyris in 2013 [6] use a very the basis of ANSI/AGMA 6022-C93 and
recent analysis of the exact analytical solution of the ANSI/AGMA 6034-C92 standards.
Reynolds equation for the lubrication of the plain
Table 1
journal bearing with finite length in order to evaluate
the impedance forces of the fluid film and define them
in closed form analytical expressions.
B. Shaft Design
To select bearing first bearing loads were calculated Worms-Gear Bearing Loads
acting on them due to worm and worm gear by ASMI Bearing C Bearing D
standard equations.
Wt Wr7 =1825.39 Wr10 =1825.39
Figure 1 Shows the bearing loads produced by worm
and worm gear. Wr Wr8 =332.228 Wr11 =332.228
6382.244 𝑋 (3.14/9.424)
σ=
20.1 𝑋 0.389
Figure 3: Bending stress of the pinion
σ=244.408 Mpa
The boundary condition was applied to the FEM
b. Contact stress calculation :
model of gear tooth as per the Lewis beam strength
method for the determination of bending stress. Fig.3
shows that the maximum Von-mises stress is
developed at the root of the pinion tooth of 233.57
MPa. Thus, the maximum Von-mises stress developed
6382.244 𝑋 1.5 𝑋 1.0479 𝑋 1 𝑋 1.22 𝑋 1 1/2
σ= 137( ) by FEA is almost nearer to the bending stress as
20.1 𝑋 120 𝑋 0.1568
calculated by AGMA standards.
σ= 777Mpa
b. Contact stress determination by using FEA b. Comparison of Surface Contact stress results:-
Table 5
REFERENCES
a. Comparison of Bending stress results:- 6. Paulins, Karlis. "Spiral Bevel Gears with Optimised
Tooth-End Geometry." Procedia Engineering, 69.
Table 4
7. Xingqiao, DENG. "Parametric Analysis of the End Face
Bending stress by Bending stress by Difference Engagement Worm Gear." Chinese Journal of Mechanical
ANSYS
Engineering, 2015.
AGMA (MPa) Natran 8.5 (MPa) (In %)