CFD simulation of power losses and lubricant flow in gearboxes
In the last years, efficiency has become an increasingly crucial factor across various industrial sectors. The automotive industry, for instance, is requested to develop...
Why gear skiving can be good news for jet turbine disc manufacturers
Gear skiving, also known as power skiving, is where a cutting tool gradually engages with a workpiece to create gear teeth through a shaving...
Methodology to evaluate the bending and contact allowable stress numbers of gears from rotating...
Gears must verify a fatigue load capacity concerning tooth bending failure mode at the tooth root and contact pressure or Hertzian fatigue failure mode...
What causes backlash and how can it be optimized?
Backlash in gears plays a pivotal role in the smooth operation and durability of a gear system; therefore, it is really important to understand...
The role of in-situ techniques in microstructure optimization of interstitially alloyed steels
Microstructure optimization of steel for improved performance requires detailed knowledge of the thermal response of the materials. When designing heat treatments of new materials...
Increase gear pitting capacity and reparability via improved gear surface technique
The industry has seen a significant rise in the power density of geared components to increase cost efficiency in gearboxes.
It is feasible to...
David Christopher ‘Coop’ Cooper | 1961-2024: A lasting and multi-faceted legacy
Media Solutions’ employees always knew when David Christopher “Coop” Cooper was in the office.
At any given time during the day, the hallway would be...
Involute bevel gears: The importance of conjugate action in design
The planar involute profile is well known in and out of the gear community. As such, it is easy to misconstrue its relationship with...
Local load capacity analysis for the design of a balanced flank modification for cylindrical gears...
In order to carry out an optimal gear design with the aim of cost reduction and the careful handling of resources, load capacity is...
Wear behavior of polymeric compound using a new plastic gear test rig
The objective of this work was to validate a methodology to assess the performance of a polymer compound in a gear application with a...
Cleaning up AM’s dirty secret
It is not really that much of a secret any more that the post processing stage of the additive manufacturing (AM) workflow is a...
Mass finishing and shot blasting for medical and aerospace applications
In the precision-driven realms of the medical and aerospace industries, the roles of mass finishing and shot blasting technologies cannot be overstated. These processes,...
High-end surfaces of gears for electromobility
While the quantity of gears within drive trains for e-mobility has drastically decreased compared to drive trains for vehicles with combustion engines, their design...
Advanced distortion control for case hardening of transmission components
In many applications the high demands regarding fatigue properties of transmission components can be reached only by the application of customized case hardening. This...
Envelope surfaces in the gear design and in the gear-machining processes
This article deals with envelope surfaces used in gear design and in gear-machining processes, those using the gear generating principle when rotations of two...
Addressing the demand for energy efficiency in gear measurement technology
Since the beginning of the 21st century, there have been efforts to combat climate change with environmental measures. In that vein, the improvement of...
Use of gear reliability data in a cloud-based gearbox digital twin using telematics data
Technological trends tend to attract convenient phrases whose usage “goes viral,” picking up more and more references across the world. In particular, the “Digital...
A new level of flexibility in gear grinding
Finishing gears and profiles more efficiently is the goal behind any company’s push for innovation.
This has led to the development of a sophisticated modular...
Purpose-built forged parts optimized for ‘end use’
When forging seamless rolled rings for diverse sectors such as industrial machinery, pulp and paper, turbines, and oil and gas exploration, it is crucial...
Influence of precipitation conditions on the tooth root and pitting load carrying capacity of...
Today, case hardening represents the standard heat-treatment process for highly stressed gears. The microstructure in the surface layer of the gears generally consists primarily...
