Gear Cutting Tools: Design and Computation is for every mechanical engineer and manufacturing engineer who is interested in the scientific basis as well as in the practical aspects of the gear machining advances, according to author Stephen P. Radzevich, Ph.D. “This book is neither a text book nor a manual,” he says. “It combines science and practice. The reader will find enough material to understand the geometry of gear cutting tools and the kinematics of a gear machining processes.”
The book deals with the science of surface generation. The investigation of surface generation process offers an excellent context and motivation for exploring the pervasive ties between geometry and kinematics. The discussion in the book is based on the DG/K-based approach of surface generation. The acronym DG/K is derived from two terms, namely, from “differential geometry” and from “kinematics of multi-parametric motion in Euclidean E3 space.” The DG/K-based approach to surface generation is disclosed in detail in the books earlier published by the author.
“To my knowledge this book is the first attempt ever in which the designing of optimal gear cutting tools is disclosed in detail based on the fundamental scientific theory,” Radzevich says. “Most, but not all of the important topics in the field of gear cutting tool design are covered by in the book. However, this area of gear engineering is very broad. There is much room for further improvements in this area of gear engineering.”
A professor of both mechanical and manufacturing engineering, Radzevich is with the Eaton Corporation’s Southfield Innovation Center. He can be reached at (248) 226-6831 or radzevich@hotmail.com. The book is available at [www.amazon.com].
