Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Gear finish hobbing: potentials of several cutting materials

  • Tooling
  • Published:
Production Engineering Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This paper deals with the investigation of gear finish hobbing using several cutting materials. Gear finish hobbing is a method for soft finishing of external cylindrical power transmission gears. Based on these results, the potential of the cutting materials cemented carbide, PM-HSS, cermet and PCBN were presented in this paper. The challenges in gear finish hobbing are small chip thicknesses and high cutting speeds. Regarding these points the wear behavior of the tools was investigated. For the investigation the fly-cutter process was used. In the conducted investigations the wear behavior at cutting speeds between 250 up to 2250 m/min was regarded. The conclusion is, cemented carbide tools have the highest potentials for gear finish hobbing at high cutting speeds. The cutting materials cermet and PCBN do not allow a stable process at cutting speeds above 1500 m/min.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Schalaster R (2012) Optimierung des Fertigwälzfräsens von Verzahnungen. Dissertation RWTH Aachen

  2. Klocke F, Gorgels C, Weber G-T, Schalaster R (2011) Prognosis of the local tool wear in gear finish hobbing. In: Production Engineering. WGP, Braunschweig

  3. Klocke F, Brumm M, Sari D (2013) Fertigwälzfräsen von Verzahnungen – Potentiale und Grenzen bei Einsatz von Hartmetallwerkzeugen. Tagungsband zur 54. Arbeitstagung „Zahnrad- und Getriebeuntersuchungen“, WZL RWTH Aachen

  4. Komori M, Sumi M, Kubo A (2003) Simulation of hobbing for analysis of cutting edge failure due to chip Crush. ASME report PTG-48068

  5. Abood AM, Bicker R, Pennell T (2002) An analysis of cutting forces in gear hobbing. VDI Berichte 1665:129–143

    Google Scholar 

  6. Bouzakis K-D, Kombogiannis S, Antoniadis A, Vidakis N (2002) Gear hobbing cutting process simulation and tool wear prediction models. J Manuf Sci Eng 124:42–51

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Brecher C, Brumm M, Krömer M (2014) Design of gear hobbing processes using simulations and empirical data. In: 9th CIRP conference on intelligent computation in manufacturing engineering, Naples, 23–24. June 2014

  8. Weck M, Klocke F, Winkel O, Winter W (2003) Analysis of gear hobbing processes by manufacturing simulation. In: Production Engineering. WGP, Braunschweig

  9. Uhlmann E, Rasper P (2011) Influences on specific cutting forces and their impact on the stability behavior of milling processes. In: Production Engineering. WGP, Braunschweig

  10. Biermann D, Kahnis P (2011) Analysis and simulation of size effects in micromilling. In: Production Engineering. WGP, Braunschweig

  11. Brinksmeier E, Riemer O (2000) Wirkmechanismen bei der Mikrozerspanung. Materialwiss Werkstofftech 31(8):754–759

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. N. N. (2008) LMT Fette Gear Cutting Tools and Knowledge, Product catalogue, Version 2.1, LMT Tools, Schwarzenbeck

Download references

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support by the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF) [Project Number IGF-17007 N] for the achievement of the project results.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. WZL RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, NRW, Germany

    Deniz Sari, Fritz Klocke & Christoph Löpenhaus

Authors
  1. Deniz Sari
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Fritz Klocke
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Christoph Löpenhaus
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Deniz Sari.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Sari, D., Klocke, F. & Löpenhaus, C. Gear finish hobbing: potentials of several cutting materials. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 9, 367–376 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-015-0626-7

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-015-0626-7

Keywords

Search

Navigation