Aerospace transmission design: safety critical, reliable & durable
Aerospace applications put considerable stress on transmission systems. These safety critical systems need to be able to withstand severe operating conditions and comply to low weight requirements.
Romax capabilities to create, analyse and optimise both concept layouts and detailed designs provides support to engineers to assess a large number of different options and load scenarios at an early stage.
We can provide expertise for bearing selection and gear design including complex planetary arrangements, considering the influence of all system deflections.
The need to achieve low weight targets in most aerospace transmissions normally results in the use of complex light-weight structural components and housings within the design. These need to be assessed in terms of stress and deflection under the duty cycle along with the effect on planetary load sharing, gear mesh misalignment and bearing life.
Expertise developed across industry
The design and analysis methods developed by Romax can be utilised to consider the whole gearbox system and provide optimum solutions to ensure durability and reduce noise and vibration. The optimisation of gear micro-geometry to reduce transmission error is one example of the work that Romax can undertake.
Complete confidentiality
Our clients depend on us to uphold strict confidentiality with regard to their product development, and our discretion and sensitivity to this need is one of the reasons that clients choose to work with us time and again.
Benefits:
- Confidence in the design at an early stage in the development process
- Expand expertise in terms of gear design and bearing technology
- Achieve optimum levels for durability, vibration, efficiency and weight
- Partner with a trustworthy technology expert
Capabilities:
- Influence of deflections in light weight housing and components on gears and bearings
- Evaluation of planetary gear systems in terms of mesh misalignment, load sharing and transmission error
- Predict load sharing within a fully flexible system instead of assuming load sharing factors
- Assessment of concept gear layouts, bearing selection and detailed micro-geometry