Fatigue Reliability Prediction Method of Large Aviation Planetary System Based on Hierarchical Finite Element

Abstract

The reliability of planetary equipment determines the economic affordability and service safety, to a large extent, for a helicopter transmission system. However, with the continuous improvement of the progressiveness and large-scale degree of new aviation planetary equipment, the contradiction between reliability design indexes and R&D economy is also gradually highlighted. This paper takes the large aviation planetary system as a research object, aims to accurately evaluate the system reliability level formed in design processes, and deeply excavates the inherent characteristics of the planetary system in functional realization and builds a system fatigue reliability evaluation model accordingly. An advanced hierarchical finite element technology is used to calculate dangerous tooth load histories under the influence of system global elastic behavior, and the tooth probability fatigue strength is obtained through the gear low-cycle fatigue test and life distribution transformation method, so as to provide economic load and strength input variables, respectively, for the reliability model. This prediction method can provide targeted structural optimization guidance in the development and design of the large aviation planetary system and significantly reduce the cost of reliability index realization for this kind of large-scale, high-end equipment in design iteration processes.

Keywords

• planetary transmission
• hierarchical analysis
• finite element method
• reliability modeling
• fatigue test