Article | REF: BM5687 V1

Toothed-belt drive

Author: Daniel PLAY

Publication date: April 10, 2007

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!


Overview

Français

ABSTRACT

A toothed-belt transmission is composed of a belt that drives accessories and a number of pulleys in rotation. Calculations of load distributions are thus fundamental. This article serves as a documentary aid for designing toothed-belt transmissions. Simple or comprehensive methods for presizing calculations are first summed up: quasi-static belt resistance and dynamic belt resistance and reliability. In addition, the distributions of the quasi-static load, between the belt teeth, are examined using the Gerbet model and the model with step differences.

Read this article from a comprehensive knowledge base, updated and supplemented with articles reviewed by scientific committees.

Read the article

AUTHOR

  • Daniel PLAY: University Professor, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Lyon

 INTRODUCTION

A toothed belt drive consists of a belt that drives a number of rotating pulleys and accessory elements such as tensioners and winders. From a global point of view, the presence of active teeth on the belt, which mesh with the teeth on the pulleys, ensures an average transmission known as synchronous. But if we look a little more closely at the angular movement on the receiving pulleys, and in particular at all the variations in resisting torques, angular deviations of the pulleys from their theoretical positions appear – This is known as transmission error – and synchronism is not guaranteed.

Already in quasi-static operation, internal forces and preloads condition the loads applied to the teeth during operation, along the arcs of the belt winding on the pulleys. In motion, however, variations in excitation, either of motion or of force, lead to dynamic responses and consequent variations in force, which affect service life, transmission error and noise.

Definitions. Geometry" folders and "Operating characteristics". have shown that timing belts are very rigorously defined, technological progress is noticeable and the apprehension of using a rubber or polymer-based component is fading. On the other hand, applications are becoming better defined, particularly with regard to conditions of use, and computing resources are becoming increasingly well-suited to numerical simulations which, in part, free us from constraining experimental conditions.

The aim of this dossier is to present the various calculation steps currently possible, and to give application engineers the means to build a documented argument when designing toothed belt drives. First, we summarize simple or global pre-sizing methods. We then present quasi-static load distributions between the teeth that transmit the forces. The effect of transmission parameters is discussed. In the [BM 5 688] file, an approach to dynamic effects is proposed.

You do not have access to this resource.

Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!


The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
+ More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

This article is included in

Mechanical functions and components

This offer includes:

Knowledge Base

Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

Services

A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

Practical Path

Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

Doc & Quiz

Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

Subscribe now!

Ongoing reading
Timing belt drive