University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 8-2012 Parametric Instability Investigation and Stability Based Design for Transmission Systems Containing Face-gear Drives Meng Peng
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss Part of the Acoustics, Dynamics, and Controls Commons, and the Propulsion and Power Commons Recommended Citation Peng, Meng, "Parametric Instability Investigation and Stability Based Design for Transmission Systems Containing Face-gear Drives. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2012. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1434 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Meng Peng entitled "Parametric Instability Investigation and Stability Based Design for Transmission Systems Containing Face-gear Drives." I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in Mechanical Engineering. Hans A. DeSmidt, Major Professor We have read this dissertation and recommend its acceptance: J. A. M. Boulet, Seddik M. Djouadi, Xiaopeng Zhao Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official studentecor r ds.) Parametric Instability Investigation and Stability Based Design for Transmission Systems Containing Face-gear Drives A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Meng Peng August 2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my primary advisor, Dr.