Abstract
Application of 3D finite element method (FEM) simulation for induction hardening of gears is still a time-consuming and expensive task. The significant cost of a simulation remains in the manual preparation of the 3D description of geometry. In the current work, we propose to complement the numeric simulations with automatic geometry generation based on a parametric representation of a gear and an induction coil. The parameters used to describe a gear are module, pitch diameter, and pressure angle. The circular coil is described by the height, external and internal diameters. FEM computations are implemented to solve magneto-quasi-static Maxwell’s equations. A demonstration of the possibilities of the proposed approach via a parametric study is presented by varying the module of a gear while keeping a constant number of teeth. A heuristic tuning of heating power frequency- time is presented here and compared to the classical semi-analytical equations and 2D simulations.
