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Professorship Machine Elements and Product Development
Shaft-Hub Connections
Professorship Machine Elements and Product Development 

1 General description

In the course of the globalization of markets and the associated increases in performance, the increasingly compact drivetrain requires the utilization of all available strength reserves. For this reason, the design of selected shaft–hub connections (SHC) with regard to fatigue, has been a major research focus at IKAT for decades. The behaviour under isolated loads (bending, torque) as well as combined dynamic loads is analysed and interpreted.

 

2 Focus of research

The complex interaction between stress-based loading and additional wear mechanisms (e.g., fretting fatigue) makes experimental investigations of the transmission behaviour of SHC indispensable. These are accompanied by various simulation tools and ultimately serve to validate them. The investigations are carried out on coned and cylindrical press fit connections as well as keyed, knurled, and polygonal fits. The primary focus is on the fatigue (long-term) strength of SHC. Investigations are also conducted in the low cycle fatigue range.

 

3 Tools

The numerical structural analyses of SHC are performed using the FE software ABAQUS. A dedicated compute cluster of the chair is available for this purpose. Other mathematical problems are processed with Mathcad or MATLAB®. Shaft–Hub Connections The current state of research can be applied to a complete gearbox design via the FVA Workbench. Shaft–Hub Connections

The experimental investigations are carried out on a large number of test benches tailored to the respective requirements: UWP40, UWP50, UWP60, MLP, HDZ8000, GPeV

 

4 Projects

Inner knurled interference fit

Funding agency:AiF
Research association:FVA
Duration:27 Months
Start time:Apr 2022
Editor:Tobias Hentschel
Further Information:FVA-Nr.: 956 I
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The internal knurl pressure connection (IRPV) is characterised as a representative of non-positive and positive shaft-hub connection (WNV) by the transmission of high power densities in the field of drive technology. With the help of experimental and dynamic investigations of a wide range of parameters, existing design methods and failure mechanisms of the inverse method, the external knurl interference fit, are qualified and subsequently transferred into a standardised design specification. The intended research results will serve the future design of WNV, with which performance-limiting weak points in the drive train can be eliminated or significantly higher volumetric efficiency values can be achieved in new designs.

New conception DIN 6892

Funding agency:AiF
Research association:FVA
Duration:30 Months
Start time:Feb 2022
Editor:Benjamin Muhammedi
Further Information:FVA-Nr.: 600 III
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FVA-Guidline Fatigue of shafts

Funding agency:AiF
Research association:FVA
Duration:6.5 Months
Start time:Oct 2021
Editor:Lukas Suchy
Further Information:FVA-Nr.: 321 VII
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Mechanical surface hardening

Funding agency:AiF
Research association:FVA
Duration:21 Months
Start time:May 2022
Editor:Benjamin Muhammedi
Stefanie Günther (TU Dresden, IMM)
Thomas Werner (TU Dresden, IFF)
Further Information:FVA-Nr.: 840 II
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