Automated optimal design of a two-stage helical gear reducer
Automated optimal design of a two-stage helical gear reducer
The design space of multi-stage transmissions is usually very large and heavily constrained. This places significant demands on the algorithm employed to search it, but successful optimization has the potential to yield considerably better designs than conventional heuristics, at the same time enabling a better understanding of the trade-offs between various objectives (such as service life and overall weight). Here we tackle a two-stage helical gear transmission design problem (complete with the sizing and selection of shafts, bearings, housing, etc.) using a two-phase evolutionary algorithm in a formulation that can be extended to include additional stages or different layouts.
evolutionary optimization, gear train design, spur gear sets, punctuated equilibria, multi-objective optimization
429-435
Tudose, Lucian
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Buiga, Ovidiu
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Ştefanache, Cornel
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Sóbester, András
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28 March 2010
Tudose, Lucian
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Buiga, Ovidiu
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Ştefanache, Cornel
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Sóbester, András
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Tudose, Lucian, Buiga, Ovidiu, Ştefanache, Cornel and Sóbester, András
(2010)
Automated optimal design of a two-stage helical gear reducer.
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 42 (3), .
(doi:10.1007/s00158-010-0504-z).
Abstract
The design space of multi-stage transmissions is usually very large and heavily constrained. This places significant demands on the algorithm employed to search it, but successful optimization has the potential to yield considerably better designs than conventional heuristics, at the same time enabling a better understanding of the trade-offs between various objectives (such as service life and overall weight). Here we tackle a two-stage helical gear transmission design problem (complete with the sizing and selection of shafts, bearings, housing, etc.) using a two-phase evolutionary algorithm in a formulation that can be extended to include additional stages or different layouts.
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Submitted date: 28 August 2009
Published date: 28 March 2010
Keywords:
evolutionary optimization, gear train design, spur gear sets, punctuated equilibria, multi-objective optimization
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Local EPrints ID: 148081
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/148081
ISSN: 1615-147X
PURE UUID: 085115d3-6815-44c0-bf65-4acd16a74abe
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Cornel Ştefanache
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