Research on the Application of FZG Gear Testing Machine Method on Gear Oil
The most critical indicator of gear oil for gearboxes is its load-carrying properties.Routine physical and chemical tests are not sufficient to comprehensively evaluate the load-carrying properties of gear oil.Therefore,Chinese and foreign research institutions have developed many test methods to evaluate the load-carrying properties of gear oil together with mechanical equipment.Research shows that simple bench testing methods generally have poor correlation with the actual operating conditions of the equipment.Using gears with specified geometric structures on the gear test bench can well characterize the load-carrying properties of gear lubricants.The paper focuses on the effect of lubricants on different failure modes of gears and how to quantify and accurately characterize the load-carrying properties of lubricants using appropriate testing methods.