An overview of the incubation, nucleation
and growth, and morphology of this
common failure mode, along with the
appropriate terminology to describe it.
Gears are toothed wheels used primarily to transmit motion and power between rotating shafts. Gearing is an assembly of two or more gears. The most durable of all mechanical drives, gearing can transmit high power at efficiencies approaching 0.99 and with long service life. As precision machine elements gears must be designed.