Their high-power-density design combined with their limited space make planetary gear trains often high power losses difficult to dissipate to the surround in time. The thermal network model for temperature prediction in planetary gear trains has been proposed. According to the principle of the conservation of energy, the thermal network model have been built and the model have been employed to analyze the transient temperature of the three stage 2K-H planetary gear trains used in Φ6.3m earth pressure balance(EPB) shield machine in series. The computed temperature results of the proposed TNM were in very good agreement with experimental measurements. It has been shown that this method is capable of performing temperature analysis. The results stemmed from the TNM have been shown that the temperature rise of the sun gears is quicker than the other parts and the PGT doesn’t reach thermal balance after the oil temperature reached 90 degrees, so the cooling system should be compelled.
A model for the transmission efficiency of the planetary gear train has been proposed based on the principle of energy. The network topology for the planetary gear train is established with the graph theory by substitution the net nodes for the parts. According to the principle of conservation of energy, the interaction model of the energy transfer of the gear train is built by the way of integration the energy transfer equations between the nodes. With the investigation on the power losses, the transmission efficiency of planetary gear train can be calculated.
The method to analysis the strength of planetary trains’ carriers of EPB(earth pressure balance) shield machine is presented in this paper. The structure of the shield machine trains is analyzed and the 3-D solid model of the carrier is built with Pro/E. After the load on the carrier has been dealt with, the strength of carrier is calculated by means of finite element method. The results via ANSYS show that the max stress and strain on the carriers are increasing as the increasing load on it. The max stress is lying on the joint point of the carrier and planetary gear shaft because of the bending deformation of the shaft.
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