Free bending forming (FBF) is a flexible forming technology that gained significant attention
recently because of its broad applications in critical industries such as the automotive …

Contact pressure and load distribution are key indices used in the performance evaluation of
spiral bevel gears, and their calculation accuracy and efficiency continue to be the focus of …

Loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) is an important tool for analyzing the meshing of spiral
bevel gears. This paper presents a semi-analytical LTCA method, where the analytical …

Accurate and rapid calculation of nonlinear excitation (NE) and loaded mesh characteristics
(LMC) of gear pairs is a key to achieving rapid iterative optimization of gear system designs …

The paper proposes an efficient and accurate analytical calculation model of time-varying
mesh stiffness (TVMS) for the spiral bevel gear. Firstly, an enhanced numerical loaded tooth …

The meshing characteristics (MCs) including time-varying meshing stiffness (TVMS), loaded
transmission error (LTE) and contact stress are the key indexes of spiral bevel gears (SBGs) …

Spur gears are widely applied in transmissions of heavy load cases, such as turbines, ships,
mining devices, and other industrial applications. Increasing the tooth root bending strength …

Carburized gears are commonly used in heavy-duty machines such as wind turbines, ships
and high-speed rails. The gradient characteristics of mechanical properties and …

Polymer gears are used extensively in various applications. However, durability issues have
been emerging because of friction at gear tooth contact areas. To extend the lifetime of …

A novel prediction method for gear friction coefficients with or without lubrication is
developed with a computational inverse technique. A surrogate model is introduced to …