We left the gear tribe arguing over how to solve the problems that were cropping up with the new-fangled double helical or herringbone designs. Fas...

You will be relieved to hear that I am temporarily out of youth soccer analogies. I could switch to “American” football analogies but am mourning t...

The design of gear blanks or flanges has traditionally been driven by weight reduction. Recently innovative companies have started to use the gear blank design to tune the system dynamics to reduce gear whine.

We have all gotten a harsh lesson in exactly what “essential” means from an invisible enemy that does not care about degrees or bank balances. Thos...

Noise issues from gear and motor excitation whine are commonly faced by many within the EV and HEV industry. In this paper the authors present an advanced CAE methodology for troubleshooting and optimizing such NVH phenomenon.

Faydor Litvin, 1914-2017; Michael Goldstein receives AGMA Distinguished Service Award.

I got caught up in a messy but foreseeable travel delay coming home from my first trip to China. Foreseeable because airplanes are machines and mac...

How does one perform a contact analysis for worn gears? Our expert responds.

If you enjoy working with your hands—without doubt a large segment of Gear Technology’s audience—you must go to robives.com. There you will find one of the most clean-but-serious fun websites on the Internet. It is where you will learn—or re-learn, in some cases—how to create things from paper. Origami, you’re thinking? Nah—mere child’s play.

The complete Technical Calendar from the September 2012 issue of Gear Technology.