58 巻 (1992) 555 号 p. 3386-3391
The existence of chaotic motion in a simple single-degree or two-degree-of-freedom gear model has already been verified numerically by the authors. In this study, the chaotic motion and the influence of a random component on chaos are invesigated using the Poincare map and the power spectrum analysis, since characterizing the chaotic motion in the gear system is an important and interesting problem from the practical viewpoint of estimating the dynamic load or gear noise as well as from an academic perspective of contributing to nonlinear mechanics.