Gear Resonance Analysis and Experimental Verification Using Rapid Prototyped Gears
Weight reduction is of great importance in the design of gearing for aerospace applications. Natural resonance responses of the gear […]
Upgrading and Testing a 72,000 H.P. Gearbox
Another Day at the Gear Hospital Over the past 40 years, we have had many gearboxes come to our door […]
UNIMILL: Prototype and Small Batch Bevel Gear Manufacturing
Manufacturing of spiral bevel and hypoid gears can be conducted in several ways. The following methods are commonly known: • […]
A New Innovation in Spline Rolling Rack Tooling
The spline rolling process was invented by the Michigan Tool Company in 1954. The tools used for the process, commonly […]
Proactive Contamination Control for Industrial Gearing
No matter what industry you serve, there’s a good chance that gears and gearing are critical to your process. In […]
Principal Design Parameters Of Gearing With Non-Parallel Axes Of Rotations
This paper pertains to gearing with non-parallel axes of rotation of the driving and the driven members. Examples of the […]
Finite Element Analysis of a Floating Planetary Ring Gear with External Splines
The design of a planetary ring gear is always a challenge due to the contradictive requirements it must comply with. […]
Gear Failure Analysis and Lessons Learned in Aircraft High-Lift Actuation
The high lift system of an aircraft, including trailing and/or leading edge slats/flaps, increases lift for takeoff, controls flight during […]
Grinding Alternatives
As the original inventor of continuous generating gear grinding technology, Reishauer has been a leader in hard finishing of gears […]
CASE STUDY: RUF Briquetting Systems and Corrugated Replacements, Inc. and Horsburg-Scott
Briquetting is a way to regain value from the materials you already have. Gear grinding operations are finding the value […]
Medical Device Assembly Case Study: National Bearings
Overview A leading, U.S.-based medical device manufacturer was experiencing significant product failure. The surgical device, which included a plastic gear, […]
A Study on Contact Fatigue Performance of Nitrided and TiN Coated Gears
The developing trend of gears focusing on high-speed, heavy-duty, lightweight, and small sizes makes hardness promotion of gear face through […]
Dynamic Simulations of Radial Lip Seals Followability in an Industrial Gearbox
Industrial gear units are widely used in power transmission systems. They are composed of shafts, gears, rolling elements bearings and […]
Numerical Modelling Of Hot Forming and Heat-Treatment of Annular Gears
During the last two decades, there has been very intense research activity in the field of finite element simulation in […]
Case Study: Company: Wenzel / Customer: Gibbs Gears
The gear manufacturer Gibbs Gears, located in UK-based Stoke Mandeville, met the challenge and extended their machinery with a gear […]
A New Standard Under Development: Specifying Powder Metallurgy Gears
In the early nineties, I was working at a transmission manufacturing facility in Indiana that made lawn and garden transmissions. […]
Purchasing Gear Lubricants: Be Careful When Playing the Numbers Game
An assumption has been made that anyone reading this has a basic knowledge of most gear types and their geometric […]
Uncover Hidden Potentials in Hobbing
Companies in today’s competitive environment are always looking for opportunities to improve their manufacturing productivity. Turning, milling, and drilling operations […]
Cubitron II: Precision-Shaped Grain (PSG) Turns the Concept of Gear Grinding Upside Down
To date, grinding, according to the German DIN Standard 8580, is “machining with geometrically undefined cutting edges” while other machining […]
Topological Gear Grinding Methods
The word “topological” is often an over-used and misapplied adjective for design philosophies and manufacturing methods of gears. In the […]
