Contact stress analysis for a pair of mating gears

This paper presents a contact stress analysis for a pair of mating gears during rotation. Contact stress analyses for spur and helical gears are performed between two gear teeth at different contact positions during rotation. Two examples of spur and helical gears are presented to investigate the respective variations of the contact stress in a pair of mating gears with the contact position. The variation of the contact stress during rotation is compared with the contact stress at the lowest point of single‐tooth contact (LPSTC) and the AGMA (American Gear Manufacturers Association) equation for the contact stress. In this study, we can see that the gear design that considers the contact stress in a pair of mating gears is more severe than that of the AGMA standard.