TLIFE: A program for spur, helical and spiral bevel transmission life and reliability modeling
Abstract
This report describes a computer program, 'TLIFE', which models the service life of a transmission. The program is written in ANSI standard Fortran 77 and has an executable size of about 157 K bytes for use on a personal computer running DOS. It can also be compiled and executed in UNIX. The computer program can analyze any one of eleven unit transmissions either singly or in a series combination of up to twenty-five unit transmissions. Metric or English unit calculations are performed with the same routines using consistent input data and a units flag. Primary outputs are the dynamic capacity of the transmission and the mean lives of the transmission and of the sum of its components. The program uses a modular approach to separate the load analyses from the system life calculations. The program and its input and output data files are described herein. Three examples illustrate its use. A development of the theory behind the analysis in the program is included after the examples.
- Publication:
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Final Report Akron Univ
- Pub Date:
- August 1994
- Bibcode:
- 1994auoh.rept.....S
- Keywords:
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- Computer Programs;
- Gears;
- Mathematical Models;
- Personal Computers;
- Reliability Analysis;
- Service Life;
- Transmissions (Machine Elements);
- Data Structures;
- Fortran;
- Loads (Forces);
- Mechanical Engineering