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Five-axis milling is a modern, flexible and constantly developing manufacturing process, which can be used for the machining of external cylindrical gears by means of cylindrical end mills and special disc mills on universal multi-axis machining centres. The article presents a new method of positioning the tip and the axis of the end mill and the disc cutter in order to ensure a constant value of deviation of the theoretical roughness <italic>Rth</italic> along the entire length of the tooth profile. The first part presents a mathematical model of the five-axis milling process of the cylindrical gear and an algorithm for calculating the <italic>Rth</italic> deviation values. The next section describes the positioning of the end mill and the disc cutter. Then, a new method for the empirical determination of the distribution of the involute root angle <italic>Δui</italic> and the data description by means of the interpolation function are presented and described. In the conducted numerical tests, the influence of the geometrical parameters of the cylindrical gear on the deviation <italic>Rth</italic> is determined, assuming a constant <italic>Rth</italic> value in the five-axis milling process.
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Five-axis milling is a modern, flexible and constantly developing manufacturing process, which can be used for the machining of external cylindrical gears by means of cylindrical end mills and special disc mills on universal multi-axis machining centres. The article presents a new method of positioning the tip and the axis of the end mill and the disc cutter in order to ensure a constant value of deviation of the theoretical roughness Rth along the entire length of the tooth profile. The first part presents a mathematical model of the five-axis milling process of the cylindrical gear and an algorithm for calculating the Rth deviation values. The next section describes the positioning of the end mill and the disc cutter. Then, a new method for the empirical determination of the distribution of the involute root angle Δui and the data description by means of the interpolation function are presented and described. In the conducted numerical tests, the influence of the geometrical parameters of the cylindrical gear on the deviation Rth is determined, assuming a constant Rth value in the five-axis milling process.

A New Method of the Positioning and Analysis of the Roughness Deviation in Five-Axis Milling of External Cylindrical Gear

Department of Manufacturing Techniques and Automation, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics

Acta Mechanica et Automatica

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Five-axis milling is a modern, flexible and constantly developing manufacturing process, which can be used for the machining of external cylindrical gears by...

A New Method of the Positioning and Analysis of the Roughness Deviation in Five-Axis Milling of External Cylindrical Gear

Online veröffentlicht: 15. Juni 2022

Seitenbereich: 207 - 214

Eingereicht: 07. Feb. 2022

Akzeptiert: 24. Apr. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ama-2022-0025

Schlüsselwörter
gears, five-axis milling, theoretical roughness, tooth profile error

© 2022 Michał Chlost et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A New Method of the Positioning and Analysis of the Roughness Deviation in Five-Axis Milling of External Cylindrical Gear

Online veröffentlicht: 15. Juni 2022

Seitenbereich: 207 - 214

Eingereicht: 07. Feb. 2022

Akzeptiert: 24. Apr. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ama-2022-0025

Schlüsselwörtergears, five-axis milling, theoretical roughness, tooth profile error

© 2022 Michał Chlost et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
gears, five-axis milling, theoretical roughness, tooth profile error